WUPPERTAL (DE)

Quarry blast17 July 2019

Magnitude
2.1ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
11:45:302019-07-17
UTC
09:45:302019-07-17

Main parameters

Date and time2019-07-17 09:45:30 UTC
2019-07-17 11:45:30 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 2.1
Epicentral coordinates51.228° N, 7.031° E
Uncertainty ± 3.4 km
Event IDROB 8395

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2019-07-17 12:41:42 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
92.8 – 151.5km
Mean velocity, S wave
3.4km/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. S wave: 5 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.50 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
OPTBOpitter98.4263–09:45:59.46+29.11 s–
MEMHMembach99.5227–09:45:59.70+29.35 s–
MRGMont Rigi104.422109:45:48.87+18.52 s09:46:00.32+29.97 s11.45
KLBKalborn141.420809:45:53.84+23.49 s––
CLAClavier151.523409:45:55.25+24.90 s––
Dutch seismic network (KNMI)2 stations
HGNHeimansgroeve92.823709:45:45.62+15.27 s09:45:56.72+26.37 s11.10
VKBValkenburg96.2246–09:45:58.92+28.57 s–
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