This event was reviewed by an analyst and confirmed.
Type Earthquake
Magnitude 2.7 MLv
Local datetime 1996/09/01 04:41
Universal datetime 1996/09/01 02:41
Latitude 51.28 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 7.87 ° ± 38 km
Depth 5 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
Cologne  75 963395
Frankfurt  143 650000
Essen  62 593085
Dortmund  40 588462
Düsseldorf  76 573057
Duisburg  80 504358
Wuppertal  49 360797
Bielefeld  95 331906
Bonn  83 313125
Wiesbaden  136 272432
Münster  79 270184
Kassel  114 194501
Osnabrück  112 166462
Koblenz  105 107319
Gießen  95 74411

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status final
RMS 0.8
Azimuthal gap
Number of stations used 4
Number of phases used 6

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
FR ABH Pn 02:42:17.91 -0.69 189 1.41 Manual
FR ABH Pg 02:42:19.84 -0.28 189 1.41 Manual
FR ABH Sg 02:42:39.84 0.09 189 1.41 Manual
FR RUP Pn 02:42:22.42 0.48 198 1.66 Manual
FR LANF Pn 02:42:30.48 -0.17 181 2.3 Manual
FR FELD Pn 02:42:46.22 0.58 178 3.4 Manual