ANDERLUES (BE)

Quarry blast5 April 2023

Magnitude
1.4ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
11:58:492023-04-05
UTC
09:58:492023-04-05

Main parameters

Date and time2023-04-05 09:58:49 UTC
2023-04-05 11:58:49 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 1.4
Epicentral coordinates50.389° N, 4.260° E
Uncertainty ± 2.2 km
Event IDROB 19265

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2023-04-06 22:26:16 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
8
Epicentral distance
13.7 – 148.3km
Mean velocity, P wave
6.7km/s
Mean velocity, S wave
3.7km/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: 6 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.61 s. S wave: 5 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.54 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
SNFSeneffe13.7709:58:52.69+2.95 s09:58:54.84+5.10 s2.15
BLRGBlaregnies26.026209:58:54.03+4.29 s––
SKQSteenkerque31.633609:58:56.46+6.72 s09:58:59.41+9.67 s2.95
MRDMaredsous37.410509:58:55.83+6.09 s09:59:00.26+10.52 s4.43
DOUDourbes40.514409:58:57.63+7.89 s09:59:02.68+12.94 s5.05
GESGesves58.89009:58:59.62+9.88 s09:59:06.38+16.64 s6.76
KLBKalborn135.710309:59:12.53+22.79 s––
Bensberg seismic network (University of Cologne, Germany)1 station
KLLKalltalsperre148.37809:59:14.36+24.62 s––
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