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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Sidi Mérouane in Algeria

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sidi Mérouane in Algeria. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/20 / 2020-08-07 06:15:37 / August 7, 2020 @ 6:15 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000bag6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bag6. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 6.2705° East, 36.5497° North. The temblor was picked up at 06:15:37 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Constantine (c. 450 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sétif (c. 288 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Skikda (c. 162 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Jijel (c. 148 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from El Eulma (c. 128 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from El Khroub (c. 83 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Azzaba (c. 75 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aïn Arnat, Sétif, Aïn Fakroun (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 3 km NNE of Sidi Mérouane, Algeria.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	6.2705° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5497° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NNE of Sidi Mérouane, Algeria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-07 06:15:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-07 06:32:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	370	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	2.619	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000bag6	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bag6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bag6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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