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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 13 km NNW of As Salamīyah, Syria


Earthquake location 35.1265S, 37.0148WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from As Salamīyah in Syria on Monday. Exact location, longitude 37.0148° East, latitude 35.1265° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000njq1. Event ids that are associated: us6000njq1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:56:00 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/08/24 / 2024-08-12 20:56:00 / August 12, 2024 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Homs (c. 775 400 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from (c. 460 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Idlib (c. 128 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from As Salamīyah (c. 94 900 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Jablah (c. 65 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ar Rastan (c. 53 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Khān Shaykhūn (c. 49 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Syria (c. 22 198 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma‘arratmişrīn, Jablah, Al Qaryatayn (min 5000 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 in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NNW of As Salamīyah, Syria.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.0148° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NNW of As Salamīyah, Syria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-12 20:56:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-12 21:11:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 385 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us6000njq1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000njq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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