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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Beni Saf in Algeria

Posted by admin on July 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7896S, -1.6796WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Beni Saf in Algeria. Global time and date of event 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 03:18:19 / July 11, 2017 @ 3:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:18:19 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100098pt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100098pt. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -1.6796° West, 35.7896° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Oran (c. 646 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Es Senia (c. 68 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Bir el Djir (c. 68 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from ’Aïn Temouchent (c. 57 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Remchi (c. 51 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Beni Saf (c. 46 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from ’Aïn el Turk (c. 45 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bir el Djir, Chetouane, Ahfir. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km NNW of Beni Saf, Algeria. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -1.6796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NNW of Beni Saf, Algeria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-11 03:18:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-11 03:37:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 1.874 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 57 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 us100098pt Id of event.
Event Code 100098pt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100098pt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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