ROCHEFORT (BE)

Quarry blast22 January 2020

Magnitude
1.5ML
Depth
–
Belgian time
11:56:502020-01-22
UTC
10:56:502020-01-22

Main parameters

Date and time2020-01-22 10:56:50 UTC
2020-01-22 11:56:50 Belgian time
MagnitudeML 1.5
Epicentral coordinates50.160° N, 5.258° E
Uncertainty ± 0.4 km
Event IDROB 9175

Data source : ROB (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Last update : 2020-01-23 12:03:57 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
2.3 – 72.1km
Mean velocity, P wave
12.7km/s
Mean velocity, S wave
3.8km/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: 7 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 3.40 s. S wave: 6 measurements, root-mean-square deviation 0.76 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°UTCUTCs
Belgian seismic network (Royal Observatory of Belgium)7 stations
RCHRochefort2.325610:56:51.25+0.43 s10:56:51.58+0.76 s0.33
GESGesves27.833410:56:55.92+5.10 s10:56:59.62+8.80 s3.70
CLAClavier29.0610:56:55.90+5.08 s10:57:00.04+9.22 s4.14
MRDMaredsous38.429410:56:57.50+6.68 s10:57:02.65+11.83 s5.15
DOUDourbes48.026210:56:59.29+8.47 s10:57:05.82+15.00 s6.53
KLBKalborn61.29610:57:01.49+10.67 s10:57:09.26+18.44 s7.77
TGATangissart72.131410:56:51.34+0.52 s––
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