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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Beirut in Lebanon

Posted by admin on June 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.7958S, 35.3137WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Beirut in Lebanon. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.89 km (9 miles). Event id: us10005yg6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005yg6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 13:24:32 / June 29, 2016 @ 1:24 pm. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:24:32 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 35.3137 East, latitude 33.7958 North, depth = 13.89 km.

Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Beirut (c. 1 916 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ra’s Bayrūt (c. 1 251 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tripoli (c. 229 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sidon (c. 163 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tyre (c. 135 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Nabatîyé et Tahta (c. 120 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Lebanon (c. 4 125 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was maalot Tarshīhā, , Baalbek (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 19 km WSW of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.3137° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7958° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WSW of Beirut, Lebanon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-29 13:24:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 21:05:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 211 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 2.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10005yg6 Id of event.
Event Code 10005yg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005yg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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