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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 11 km SW of El Affroun, Algeria

Posted by admin on January 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4015S, 2.535WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from El Affroun in Algeria on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 2.535 East, latitude 36.4015 North, depth = 13.17 km. Unique identifier: us1000bz45. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bz45. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.17 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:59:39 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/18 / 2018-01-02 20:59:39 / January 2, 2018 @ 8:59 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Algiers (c. 1 977 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Boumerdas (c. 786 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bab Ezzouar (c. 275 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bordj el Kiffan (c. 123 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Baraki (c. 105 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aïn Bessem, Beni Amrane, Thenia.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km SW of El Affroun, Algeria.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 2.535° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW of El Affroun, Algeria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-02 20:59:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 21:20:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 390 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 3.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us1000bz45 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bz45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bz45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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