This event was reviewed by an analyst and confirmed.
Type Earthquake
Magnitude 3 MLv
Local datetime 1997/05/14 01:47
Universal datetime 1997/05/13 23:47
Latitude 49.12 ° ± 1 km
Longitude 6.80 ° ± 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  19 181227
Metz  44 116429
Forbach  10 21552
Sarreguemines  20 20783
Saint-Avold  6 15483
Creutzwald  13 13095
Freyming-Merlebach  4 12818
Stiring-Wendel  13 11618
Behren-lès-Forbach  12 6562
Hombourg-Haut  2 6433
Petite-Rosselle  11 6338
Boulay-Moselle  23 5587
Farébersviller  5 5541
L'Hôpital  6 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 13
Number of phases used 12

Webservices

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QuakeML GeoJSON Text

Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
FR RUP Pg 23:47:38.13 -0.49 16 0.61 Manual
FR RUP Sg 23:47:47.25 0.12 16 0.61 Manual
FR LANF Pg 23:47:40.31 0.56 101 0.67 Manual
FR HOFF Pg 23:47:42.2 0.19 102 0.78 Manual
FR WLS Pg 23:47:41.61 -0.37 152 0.79 Manual
FR WLS Sg 23:47:52.48 -0.5 152 0.79 Manual
FR KTD Pg 23:47:42.81 -0.53 76 0.86 Manual
FR KTD Sg 23:47:55.34 -0.02 76 0.86 Manual
FR ABH Pg 23:47:44.18 0.02 32 0.91 Manual
FR ABH Sg 23:47:57.0 0.22 32 0.91 Manual
FR ECH Pg 23:47:45.20 0.61 165 0.93 Manual
FR ECH Sg 23:47:57.70 0.17 165 0.93 Manual