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Summary:

Magnitude	mb 4.0
Region	NORTHERN ALGERIA

Date time	2009-01-15 at 04:14:33.5 UTC
Location	34.54 N ; 1.19 W
Depth	unknown
Distances	41 km S Tilimsan (pop 120,982 ; local time 05:14 2009-01-15) 18 km SE Sibdu (pop 41,146 ; local time 05:14 2009-01-15)
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References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

Regional deadly earthquakes from year 1500 to 2000

Date

Long.

Lat.

Mag.

Death

Location

1790-10-09	0.6	35.7	?	3000	NORTHERN ALGERIA
1819-03-00	0.1	35.4	?	many	NORTHERN ALGERIA
1994-08-18	-0.1	35.5	5.9	159	NORTHERN ALGERIA

Source: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718

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Centre de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Géophysique Algiers, Algeria

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Instituto Geografico Nacional, Madrid, Spain (MAD)

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