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Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2016/09/21 04:08
Universal datetime 2016/09/21 01:08
Latitude -12.55 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 42.73 ° ± 5 km
Depth 10 km (from location) ± 0.0 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Pemba  243 108737
Moroni  109 42872
Koungou  268 32156
Dembeni  268 15848
Bandraboua  260 13989
Tsingoni  262 13934
Sada  262 11156
Ouangani  263 10203
Chirongui  266 8920
Chiconi  261 8295
Mtsamboro  255 7705
M'Tsangamouji  257 6432
Bouéni  260 6189
Kani-Kéli  264 5507
Acoua  255 5192

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 6 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.25
Azimuthal gap 60.09 °
Number of stations used 16
Number of phases used 16

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU KMBO P 01:11:44.22 -3.12 334.17 12.65 Automatic
II MSEY P 01:12:20.2 1.98 59.08 14.86 Automatic
II MBAR P 01:12:44.87 1.15 314.24 16.86 Automatic
IU FURI P 01:13:40.32 1.05 349.18 21.82 Automatic
IU TSUM P 01:14:15.67 2.85 251.38 25.05 Automatic
II SUR P 01:14:41.97 1.19 221.81 28.22 Automatic
II RAYN P 01:15:48.2 -0.96 4.31 36.18 Automatic
II UOSS P 01:16:20.67 1.55 19.3 39.74 Automatic
IU GNI P 01:18:05.17 4.21 1.93 52.74 Automatic
II ASCN P 01:18:25.87 -3.49 268.78 56.27 Automatic
II AAK P 01:19:08.67 -0.92 25.91 62.4 Automatic
IU CHTO P 01:19:19.9 -0.32 61.38 63.66 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 01:19:49.57 -2.58 27.64 68.97 Automatic
II KURK P 01:20:02.37 0.38 23.18 70.58 Automatic
IU SBA P 01:21:21.69 0.73 169.91 84.4 Automatic
II WRAB P 01:21:32.7 -3.71 109.81 87.25 Automatic