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Type Event
Magnitude 5.6 mb
Local datetime 2017/04/16 15:44
Universal datetime 2017/04/16 09:44
Latitude -7.29 ° ± 6 km
Longitude 83.22 ° ± 4 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
Thiruvananthapuram  1880 784153
Tirunelveli  1875 435844
Colombo  1617 217000
Nagercoil  1828 213858
Moratuwa  1600 185031
Sri Jawewardenepura Kotte  1611 115826
Kandy  1636 111701
Trincomalee  1768 108420
Galle  1510 93118
Batticaloa  1669 86742
Anuradhapura  1758 60943
Ratnapura  1578 47832
Puttalan  1736 45661
Badulla  1597 42230
Kilinochchi  1872 13006

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.15
Azimuthal gap 127.46 °
Number of stations used 28
Number of phases used 28

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II DGAR P 09:46:37.42 -1.25 268.68 10.68 Automatic
II KAPI P 09:51:08.92 -1.45 88.56 36.39 Automatic
II ABPO P 09:51:13.77 -0.41 247.85 36.85 Automatic
II UOSS P 09:51:53.42 0.75 321.67 41.61 Automatic
IU KMBO P 09:52:31.12 -0.07 275.46 46.22 Automatic
IU FURI P 09:52:42.77 3.87 289.31 47.24 Automatic
II RAYN P 09:52:43.57 -0.64 311.02 48.03 Automatic
II AAK P 09:53:03.27 0.91 351.69 50.56 Automatic
II WRAB P 09:53:08.17 -0.33 109.78 51.07 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 09:53:28.22 -0.48 358.95 54.11 Automatic
IU LSZ P 09:53:32.27 -1.08 256.41 54.42 Automatic
II KURK P 09:53:57.27 -0.32 356.57 58.15 Automatic
IU ULN P 09:54:03.67 -0.35 18.43 59.03 Automatic
IU GNI P 09:54:07.82 2.02 326.39 59.22 Automatic
II BRVK P 09:54:18.87 -0.86 351.18 61.35 Automatic
IU CTAO P 09:54:29.7 1.06 108.9 62.23 Automatic
II SUR P 09:54:32.67 0.63 237.24 62.87 Automatic
II KIV P 09:54:31.2 -0.16 328.32 62.96 Automatic
IU PMG P 09:54:36.27 1.54 96.89 63.22 Automatic
IU TSUM P 09:54:43.57 -0.51 252.17 64.64 Automatic
IU ANTO P 09:54:52.47 -0.23 319.71 66.19 Automatic
IU MAJO P 09:55:02.27 0.6 45.39 67.57 Automatic
II OBN P 09:55:35.92 -0.95 334.28 73.42 Automatic
IU YAK P 09:56:02.87 -0.04 20.34 77.98 Automatic
IU TIXI P 09:56:34.97 -1.98 13.09 84.38 Automatic
IU MA2 P 09:56:42.7 0.26 28.01 85.28 Automatic
II BFO P 09:56:42.97 -0.69 319.93 85.58 Automatic
IU PAB P 09:57:18.27 0.16 309.53 92.77 Automatic