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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Jijel in Algeria

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Jijel in Algeria. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/02/20 / 2020-02-21 02:55:18 / February 21, 2020 @ 2:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 5.5989° East, latitude 36.7467° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:55:18 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007tzd. Id of event: us70007tzd.

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 Tamalous, Kerkera, Chemini. Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Sétif (c. 288 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Bejaïa (c. 164 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Jijel (c. 148 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from El Eulma (c. 128 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Chelghoum el Aïd (c. 71 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mila (c. 68 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km WSW of Jijel, Algeria. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	5.5989° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7467° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km WSW of Jijel, Algeria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-21 02:55:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-21 03:13:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	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	298	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	3.193	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us70007tzd	Id of event.
Event Code	70007tzd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007tzd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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