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Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake: Botswana

Summary

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

On Mon Apr 3rd 2017 17:40:15 (UTC) the seismic network recorded an earthquake (preliminary 6.5 mwb) located in Botswana. Seismic region Africa.

The epicentral distance (i.e. distance separating the location to the epicenter) to the closest station USGCB in the network is 16,074.6 km.

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Details

Time:Mon Apr 3rd 2017 17:40:15 (UTC)
Magnitude:6.5 mwb
Location:(-22.6207,25.1532)
Depth:11.6 km
Author:USGS:us
evid,orid:1290593,1333362
nass,ndef:67,0
Authoritative:y

Proximity to Population Centers

Event and active stations

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

Seismic waveforms for closest station

Closest station with identified signal. Not filtered.

Seismic waveforms for vertical channels in network

Subset of several stations close to the event. Not filtered.

Signal description at some stations

STA_CHANS-E DeltaS-E AzimuthPhase TimeSignal/NoiseTime ResidualV. ModelAutharid
TRO_HHZ144.619°82.18°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.1603 UTC310.160.603iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370342
TR01_HHZ144.622°82.33°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:51.8947 UTC-10.332iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370474
TR02_HHZ144.626°82.34°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:51.8599 UTC-10.291iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370475
TR03_HHZ144.632°82.34°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:51.8823 UTC-10.303iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370479
PFO_HHZ144.635°82.04°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:51.9829 UTC141.110.399iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370344
TR04_HHZ144.636°82.36°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.0106 UTC-10.425iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370482
MONP2_HHZ144.697°83.07°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.219 UTC-10.528iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370487
LVA2_HHZ144.754°82.33°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.4353 UTC286.440.647iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370341
TFRD_HHZ144.769°82.1°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.2043 UTC-10.391iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370491
FRD_HHZ144.769°82.1°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.2287 UTC206.950.416iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370343
SND_HHZ144.77°82.01°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.3069 UTC-10.492iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370493
JORD_HHZ144.807°82.1°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.4325 UTC-10.554iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370496
TMSP_HHZ144.816°81.87°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:53.0266 UTC-11.132iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370499
WMC_HHZ144.818°81.93°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.7492 UTC-10.853iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370497
BZN_HHZ144.823°82.06°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.7661 UTC162.10.861iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370346
KNW_HHZ144.828°81.71°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.2046 UTC-10.29iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370500
GVAR1_HHZ144.831°81.78°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.3289 UTC-10.41iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370501
RRSP_HHZ144.86°81.78°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.5419 UTC-10.573iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370504
CRY_HHZ144.87°81.9°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.3779 UTC311.220.391iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370347
RHIL_HHZ144.883°81.72°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.5882 UTC-10.58iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370524
RDM_HHZ144.952°81.73°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:52.6153 UTC-10.489iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370507
SMER_HHZ145.243°81.74°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:53.4779 UTC-10.856iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370515
CPE_HHZ145.266°82.6°PKPdf2017-04-03 17:59:54.2302 UTC230.551.569iasp91dbp:jtytell:1701370348

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