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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Lakhdaria in Algeria

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Lakhdaria in Algeria. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 23:58:41 / June 11, 2016 @ 11:58 pm. The temblor was reported at 00:58:41 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 3.389° East, 36.4214° North, depth 14.46 km. Id of earthquake: us200063w4. Event ids that are associated: us200063w4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.46 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Timizart, Birine, Hadjout (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Algiers (c. 1 977 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Boumerdas (c. 786 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bab Ezzouar (c. 275 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tizi Ouzou (c. 144 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km SW of Lakhdaria, Algeria.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	3.389° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4214° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SW of Lakhdaria, Algeria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-11 23:58:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-12 21:41:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	246	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us200063w4	Id of event.
Event Code	200063w4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200063w4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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