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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Oued Fodda in Algeria

Posted by admin on October 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.273S, 1.524WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Oued Fodda in Algeria on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000awaf. Id of event: us1000awaf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 02:09:33 / October 16, 2017 @ 2:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:09:33 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 1.524 East, latitude 36.273 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Chlef (c. 178 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ech Chettia (c. 168 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Khemis Miliana (c. 75 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tissemsilt (c. 61 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Oued Rhiou (c. 59 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Aïn Defla (c. 52 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tipasa, Hadjout, Tissemsilt (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 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.

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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: 9 km N of Oued Fodda, Algeria.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 1.524° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Oued Fodda, Algeria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-16 02:09:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-24 21:36:56 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 3.1 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 2.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us1000awaf Id of event.
Event Code 1000awaf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000awaf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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