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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 5 km SSE of Aqaba, Jordan

Posted by admin on December 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.4847S, 35.0269WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Aqaba in Jordan. The temblor was detected at 02:30:08 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 35.0269° East, latitude 29.4847° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/20 / 2020-12-15 02:30:08 / December 15, 2020 @ 2:30 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000cr5v. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cr5v.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Al Quwayrah, Eilat, Aqaba. Earthquake epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Aqaba (c. 95 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Eilat (c. 45 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Al Quwayrah (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Israel (c. 7 354 000 pop), Jordan (c. 6 407 000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 5 km SSE of Aqaba, Jordan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.0269° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSE of Aqaba, Jordan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-15 02:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-15 03:41:14 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 2.5 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 234 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 1.871 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 290 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 us7000cr5v Id of event.
Event Code 7000cr5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cr5v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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