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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Oulmes in Morocco

Posted by admin on May 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.4407S, -6.3088WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Oulmes in Morocco. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/25 / 2025-05-23 11:16:40 / May 23, 2025 @ 11:16 am. Exact location of event, longitude -6.3088 West, latitude 33.4407 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000q11t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000q11t. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:16:40 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Rabat (c. 1 655 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sale (c. 903 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Meknès (c. 545 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Khouribga (c. 167 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Khemisset (c. 107 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Oued Zem (c. 84 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meknès, Khouribga, Khenifra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Morocco (c. 31 627 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 28 km W of Oulmes, Morocco.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -6.3088° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km W of Oulmes, Morocco Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-23 11:16:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-23 13:03:05 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 222 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000q11t Id of event.
Event Code 7000q11t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q11t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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