DORMAGEN (DE)

Known experimental explosion23 March 2017

Magnitude
2.4ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
01:42:562017-03-23
UTC
00:42:562017-03-23

Main parameters

Date and time2017-03-23 00:42:56 UTC
2017-03-23 01:42:56 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 2.4
Epicentral coordinates51.072° N, 6.825° E
Uncertainty ± 10.0 km
Event IDROB 5656

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2017-03-28 13:11:20 Belgian time

Location map

Macroseismic inquiry

Intensities derived from the answers to the online questionnaire “Did you feel an earthquake?”, grouped by municipality (former municipalities included). The map and the chart give the intensity of each municipality.

Answers
4
Municipalities
1
Farthest municipality
74km · WENDEN
Countries
Germany
Grouping
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Intensity of the municipality (CII)
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII+
Answers per municipality
  • 3–4
  • 5–9
  • 10–19
  • 20–49
  • ≥ 50
  • felt, fewer than 3 answers
  • Epicentre

Answers by intensity

IntensityAnswers
I0
II1
III2
IV1
Total4

Warning: the intensities derived from the inquiry are raw, unverified data.

Notes and method

Intensity of a municipality or a cell (CII, Community Internet Intensity) is computed as follows:

  • I if no answer reports that the earthquake was felt;
  • F earthquake felt, but fewer than 3 answers kept per municipality or cell;
  • II–IX computed from 3 answer(s) kept: CII = 3.40 ln(CWS) − 4.38 (Wald et al., 1999), applied to the weighted sum (CWS) of the mean indexes of the answers; at least II if felt, at most IX.

Answers kept (USGS method, as applied by the ROB): reliability of 80 or more, given on the ground floor up to the 4th floor (or unknown floor), without those more than two standard deviations from the mean. The “felt” index is weighted by the answer to “Did others nearby feel it?”.

Distribution by intensity: macroseismic intensity (MI) recorded for each answer.

Cells: 5 or 10 km squares of the Belgian Lambert 72 grid, each answer placed at its geocoded address or at the point it placed on the map, otherwise at the centre of its municipality. The positions of the answers are published only rounded to about 1 km, in “Arrival of the answers”. Grid cell method: Van Noten et al. (2017), Solid Earth 8, 453–477, doi:10.5194/se-8-453-2017.

Depth not determined: distances measured from the epicentre.

Answers without a known municipality, left out of the map and the chart: 3.

Answers read on 2026-11-09 09:53.

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