FRASNES-LEZ-ANVAING (BE)

Quarry blast4 April 2023

Magnitude
1.8ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
13:00:352023-04-04
UTC
11:00:352023-04-04

Main parameters

Date and time2023-04-04 11:00:35 UTC
2023-04-04 13:00:35 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 1.8
Epicentral coordinates50.710° N, 3.553° E
Uncertainty ± 9.5 km
Event IDROB 19255

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2023-04-06 18:57:09 Belgian time

Location map

  • Epicentre
  • Station that recorded the event

Arrival times at the stations

Each station first records the P wave, the fastest, then the S wave. The farther a station is from the epicentre, the later the waves reach it and the wider the gap between the two.

Stations
7
Epicentral distance
37.8 – 193.9km
Mean velocity, P wave
5.6km/s
  • P wave
  • S wave
  • Curve fitted to the measurements
Notes and method

Curves: travel time of a direct wave in a homogeneous medium. The velocity of each wave and an origin-time shift, common to both, are fitted to the measurements by least squares. Depth not determined: hypocenter placed at the surface for the calculation. P wave: 5 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.62 s.

Stations farther than 120 km are left out of the fit: the first waves to reach them have travelled beneath the crust, through the mantle, where they propagate faster.

Table of measurements

Station measurements

P- and S-wave arrivals and ground displacement measured at each station. Click a column heading to change the order.

km°UTCUTCs
Belgian seismic network (Royal Observatory of Belgium)7 stations
SKQSteenkerque37.810011:00:42.43+6.59 s11:00:47.61+11.77 s5.18
BRQBracquegnies48.512111:00:43.68+7.84 s––
SNFSeneffe56.311311:00:44.87+9.03 s11:00:52.23+16.39 s7.36
DOUDourbes100.813211:00:54.22+18.38 s11:01:04.68+28.84 s10.46
GESGesves114.610811:00:54.96+19.12 s––
CLAClavier128.110411:00:58.30+22.46 s––
KLBKalborn193.910911:01:06.63+30.79 s––
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