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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 34 km ENE of Halwan, Egypt

Posted by admin on March 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.974S, 31.6207WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Halwan in Egypt. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 31.6207° East, 29.974° North. Event id: us1000dbcz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dbcz. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:44:28 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/18 / 2018-03-30 07:44:28 / March 30, 2018 @ 7:44 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Egypt (c. 80 472 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Al Wāsiţah, Quwaysinā, Ain Sukhna (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Cairo (c. 7 734 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Al Jīzah (c. 2 443 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Zagazig (c. 285 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from (c. 230 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Banhā (c. 167 000 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km ENE of Halwan, Egypt.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 31.6207° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ENE of Halwan, Egypt Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-30 07:44:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 04:34:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 168 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 3.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dbcz Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbcz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbcz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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