What the records say
- When
- 14 May 2010
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.2
- Where
- Algeria
- Coordinates
- 35.90° N, 4.12° E
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 43
- Depth km
- 2
2010 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes
Earthquakes in Algeria
The 2010 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes began 14 May at 12:29:22 UTC, when a Mw 5.3 strike-slip earthquake occurred in Northern Algeria. With a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (Damaging), it was the first in a sequence of three shocks that affected the Bouïra Province over a ten-day period. Two people were killed, forty-three were injured, and some structural damage was reported.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 5.1–5.3 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes occur southeast of Algiers with a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (Damaging)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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