Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Hadjout in Algeria

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hadjout in Algeria. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 2.0513 East, latitude 36.6206 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 05:10:14 / August 29, 2020 @ 5:10 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000bexl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bexl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:10:14 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bouinan, Theniet el Had, Cheraga (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Chlef (c. 178 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Beni Mered (c. 92 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Khemis Miliana (c. 75 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Boufarik (c. 59 700 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WNW of Hadjout, Algeria. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	2.0513° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6206° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km WNW of Hadjout, Algeria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-29 05:10:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-01 04:06:15	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	2.2	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	200	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	2.624	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us7000bexl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bexl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bexl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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