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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ain Bessem in Algeria

Posted by admin on June 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3739S, 3.4242WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ain Bessem in Algeria. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:34:19 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 3.4242 East, latitude 36.3739 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20005zsw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005zsw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 22:34:19 / June 1, 2016 @ 10:34 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Algiers (c. 1 977 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Boumerdas (c. 786 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Bab Ezzouar (c. 275 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tizi Ouzou (c. 144 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Freha, Timizart, ‘Aïn el Hadjel.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 3.4242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-01 22:34:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-19 00:25:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 3.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us20005zsw Id of event.
Event Code 20005zsw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zsw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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