This event was reviewed by an analyst and confirmed.
Type Earthquake
Magnitude 4.2 mb
Local datetime 2016/01/17 17:36
Universal datetime 2016/01/17 16:36
Latitude 36.31 ° ± 15 km
Longitude 12.16 ° ± 44 km
Depth 10 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
Tunis  186 693210
Palermo  227 672175
Catania  292 313110
Sfax  217 277278
Sousse  148 164123
Siracusa  292 123657
Qairouan  199 119794
Bizerte  233 115268
Marsala  168 77784
Ragusa  240 68956
Béja  270 57233
Sdid Bouzid  280 42098
Siliana  251 26960
Zaghouan  181 16911
Valletta  217 6794

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 9 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status preliminary
RMS 0.4
Azimuthal gap 348.54 °
Number of stations used 11
Number of phases used 12

Webservices

The data of this event are available in various formats (QuakeML, GeoJSON and text) through the following links :

QuakeML GeoJSON Text

Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
FR SMPL P 16:37:38.41 -0.17 339.74 6.19 Manual
FR SMPL S 16:38:50.47 0 339.74 6.19 Manual
FR AJAC P 16:37:39.18 0.5 335.82 6.2 Manual
FR CORF P 16:37:41.69 0.03 339.61 6.42 Manual
RD PGF P 16:37:45.78 0.35 339.53 6.69 Manual
FR ESCA P 16:38:07.43 -0.86 335.45 8.36 Manual
FR SAOF P 16:38:09.1 -0.37 336.73 8.44 Manual
FR CALF P 16:38:09.17 -0.35 333.23 8.45 Manual
FR TURF P 16:38:09.86 -0.1 335.98 8.48 Manual
FR SPIF P 16:38:11.74 0.09 335.56 8.6 Manual
FR ISO P 16:38:14.79 0.73 335.17 8.78 Manual
FR BSTF P 16:38:17.15 0.15 328.28 8.99 Manual