TABEN-RODT (DE)

Quarry blast4 July 2018

Magnitude
2.0ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
10:05:432018-07-04
UTC
08:05:432018-07-04

Main parameters

Date and time2018-07-04 08:05:43 UTC
2018-07-04 10:05:43 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 2.0
Epicentral coordinates49.540° N, 6.662° E
Uncertainty ± 5.5 km
Event IDROB 6880

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2018-07-11 11:01:10 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
6
Epicentral distance
39.4 – 149.1km
Mean velocity, P wave
5.8km/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: 4 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.11 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)5 stations
WLFWalferdange39.429108:05:49.96+6.76 s––
VIAVianden55.032308:05:52.75+9.55 s08:05:59.39+16.19 s6.64
KLBKalborn73.932808:05:55.68+12.48 s08:06:04.69+21.49 s9.01
MRGMont Rigi115.933908:06:03.12+19.92 s08:06:17.30+34.10 s14.18
MEMSMembach127.733908:06:04.71+21.51 s––
German Regional Seismic Network (BGR, Germany)1 station
TNSTaunus Observatorium Kleiner Feldberg149.15908:06:08.62+25.42 s––
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