This event was reviewed by an analyst and confirmed.
Type Earthquake
Magnitude 2.5 MLv
Local datetime 1996/04/21 00:37
Universal datetime 1996/04/20 22:37
Latitude 49.16 ° ± 1 km
Longitude 6.76 ° ± 4 km
Depth 1 km (operator assigned) ± 0.0 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Saarbrücken  18 181227
Metz  42 116429
Forbach  10 21552
Sarreguemines  23 20783
Saint-Avold  5 15483
Creutzwald  8 13095
Freyming-Merlebach  3 12818
Stiring-Wendel  13 11618
Behren-lès-Forbach  13 6562
Hombourg-Haut  4 6433
Petite-Rosselle  9 6338
Boulay-Moselle  19 5587
Farébersviller  9 5541
L'Hôpital  2 5350
Faulquemont  18 5306

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status final
RMS 0.7
Azimuthal gap
Number of stations used 9
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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QuakeML GeoJSON Text

Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
FR RUP Pg 22:37:30.3 0.17 20 0.58 Manual
FR RUP Sg 22:37:37.93 0 20 0.58 Manual
FR LANF Pg 22:37:31.63 -0.7 104 0.71 Manual
FR LANF Sg 22:37:42.49 0.25 104 0.71 Manual
FR WLS Pg 22:37:34.31 -0.48 152 0.84 Manual
FR WLS Sg 22:37:46.44 -0.1 152 0.84 Manual
FR ABH Pg 22:37:35.21 -0.43 35 0.89 Manual
FR ABH Sg 22:37:48.45 0.45 35 0.89 Manual
FR ECH Pg 22:37:37.84 0.49 164 0.98 Manual
FR ECH Sg 22:37:51.37 0.37 164 0.98 Manual