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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 20 km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria


Earthquake location 36.3952S, 3.4784WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ain Bessem in Algeria. 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). Exact location of earthquake, 3.4784° East, 36.3952° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 20:52:30 / July 6, 2016 @ 8:52 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100061ff. Event ids that are associated: us100061ff. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:52:30 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ighram, Azazga, ‘Aïn el Hadjel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Algiers (c. 1 977 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Boumerdas (c. 786 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Bab Ezzouar (c. 275 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tizi Ouzou (c. 144 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 20 km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 3.4784° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-06 20:52:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-06 21:24:14 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 271 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 3.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us100061ff Id of event.
Event Code 100061ff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061ff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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