This event was reviewed by an analyst and confirmed.
Type Earthquake
Magnitude 2.9 MLv
Local datetime 2016/03/06 01:54
Universal datetime 2016/03/06 00:54
Latitude 45.99 ° ± 4 km
Longitude -2.61 ° ± 4 km
Depth 18 km (from location) ± 15 km

Have you felt an earthquake ?

You can participate to science by bringing your testimony.

Testify !
See the seismogram of this event.

Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
La Rochelle  113 75735
Les Sables-d'Olonne  88 44017
Challans  111 20622
Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez  97 11169
Aizenay  112 9510
Aytré  117 8725
Saint-Jean-de-Monts  100 8634
Talmont-Saint-Hilaire  93 7657
Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie  94 7655
Lagord  115 7048
Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron  101 6743
Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux  112 6571
Puilboreau  118 6182
Nieul-sur-Mer  114 5759
Les Achards  100 5063

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 50 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status preliminary
RMS 0.28
Azimuthal gap 223.49 °
Number of stations used 7
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 CHIF Pn 00:54:56.30 -0.06 83.91 1.54 Manual
FR CHIF Pg 00:54:58.92 0.23 83.91 1.54 Manual
FR CHIF Sg 00:55:20.53 0.4 83.91 1.54 Manual
RD MFF Pn 00:54:59.80 -0.28 69.44 1.82 Manual
RD MFF Pg 00:55:03.53 0.19 69.44 1.82 Manual
RD MFF Sg 00:55:28.20 -0.26 69.44 1.82 Manual
FR LRVF Pg 00:55:05.5 -0.18 121.97 1.93 Manual
FR LRVF Sg 00:55:31.39 -0.45 121.97 1.93 Manual
RD ROSF Pg 00:55:12.90 -0.16 349.34 2.39 Manual
FR MONQ Pn 00:55:18.62 0.51 119.73 3.14 Manual
RD MTLF Pn 00:55:34.57 0.14 125.85 4.35 Manual
RD LOR Pn 00:55:38.29 -0.07 71.68 4.64 Manual