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	Magnitude	7.4
	Date-Time	Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 14:57:18 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 11:57:18 PM local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
	Location	33.19N 137.06E
	Depth	10 kilometers
	Region	NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
	Reference	175 km (110 miles) SSE of Tsu, Honshu, Japan 175 km (110 miles) SSW of Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan 210 km (130 miles) ESE of Wakayama, Honshu, Japan 370 km (230 miles) SW of TOKYO, Japan
	Location Quality	Error estimate: horizontal +/- 3.3 km; depth fixed by location program
	Location Quality Parameters	Nst=477, Nph=477, Dmin=385.6 km, Rmss=0.89 sec, Erho=3.3 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=27.5 degrees
	Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
	Remarks	About forty people injured in the Kyoto area. Felt in much of southwestern Japan and as far north as Tokyo. Tsunamis were observed with wave heights of 86 cm at Kushimoto and 56 cm at Owase. Power outages occured at Wakayama and a fire occurred at Sakai. Recorded (5L JMA) in Wakayama and Mie; (4 JMA) in Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Tottori; (3 JMA) in Chiba, Hiroshima, Ishikawa, Kanagawa, Nagano, Okayama, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tokyo and Yamanashi; (2 JMA) in Gumma, Ibaraki, Niigata, Saitama, Tochigi and Yamaguchi; (1 JMA) in Miyagi Prefectures. Recorded (3 JMA) in Kagawa, Kochi and Tokushima; (2 JMA) in Ehime Prefectures, Shikoku. Recorded (1 JMA) in Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Oita and Saga Prefectures, Kyushu. Also recorded (3 JMA) on Hachijo- jima, Kozu-shima, Miyake-jima, Nii-jima and O-shima; (2 JMA) on Dogo, Mikura-jima and in the Dozen islands; (1 JMA) on Sadago-shima.

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