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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Bree in Belgium


Earthquake location 51.13S, 5.5731WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Bree in Belgium. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:43:26 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 5.5731 East, latitude 51.13 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 22:43:26 / May 25, 2018 @ 10:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ed2h. Id of event: us1000ed2h.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Aachen (c. 265 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mönchengladbach (c. 261 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Krefeld (c. 238 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Eindhoven (c. 209 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tilburg (c. 199 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bergheim, Sonsbeck, Kortenberg. Country/countries that might be effected, Germany (c. 81 802 000 pop), Netherlands (c. 16 645 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SW of Bree, Belgium. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 5.5731° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.13° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW of Bree, Belgium Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-25 22:43:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-27 22:09:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 130 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 1.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ed2h Id of event.
Event Code 1000ed2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ed2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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