JEMELLE (BE)

Quarry blast14 August 2019

Magnitude
1.5ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
12:29:192019-08-14
UTC
10:29:192019-08-14

Main parameters

Date and time2019-08-14 10:29:19 UTC
2019-08-14 12:29:19 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 1.5
Epicentral coordinates50.170° N, 5.244° E
Uncertainty ± 3.2 km
Event IDROB 8530

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2019-08-14 12:48:47 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
4
Epicentral distance
2.0 – 73.2km
Mean velocity, P wave
5.5km/s
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. P wave: 4 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.32 s. S wave: 4 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.37 s.

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°UTCUTCsnm
Belgian seismic network (Royal Observatory of Belgium)4 stations
RCHRochefort2.021610:29:20.10+0.28 s10:29:20.44+0.62 s0.34–
CLAClavier28.0910:29:24.54+4.72 s10:29:28.28+8.46 s3.74–
DOUDourbes47.126010:29:28.02+8.20 s10:29:34.37+14.55 s6.35–
MEMHMembach73.24810:29:33.57+13.75 s10:29:41.16+21.34 s7.5912.4
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