Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Tiberias in Israel

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tiberias in Israel. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gb36. Id of event: us2000gb36. Global time and date of event 22/07/18 / 2018-07-22 06:41:25 / July 22, 2018 @ 6:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:41:25 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 35.5793 East, latitude 32.819 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Israel (c. 7 354 000 pop), Jordan (c. 6 407 000 pop), Lebanon (c. 4 125 000 pop), Palestinian Territory (c. 3 800 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ţūlkarm, Dhannābah, . Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Irbid (c. 307 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Haifa (c. 267 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Tyre (c. 135 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nablus (c. 130 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from ‘Ajlūn (c. 125 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 5 km ENE of Tiberias, Israel.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	35.5793° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.819° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ENE of Tiberias, Israel	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-22 06:41:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-22 07:30:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	121	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	0.731	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000gb36	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gb36	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gb36,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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