Weak magnitude 2.3 earthquake at 2 km depth
20 Nov 12:56 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 5 minutes.
20 Nov 12:58: Magnitude recalculated from 2.2 to 2.3. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 10.0 to 2.0 km (from 6.2 to 1.2 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 1.3 km (0.8 mi) towards SSW.
Update Sun, 20 Nov 2022, 13:12
Small 2.3 quake hits near Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
2.3 quake 20 Nov 1:51 pm (GMT +1)
An earthquake of magnitude 2.3 occurred only 21 minutes ago 17 km southwest of Boppard, Germany, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.
The quake hit at a very shallow depth of 2 km beneath the epicenter near Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, around noon on Sunday, November 20th, 2022, at 1:51 pm local time. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
A second report was later issued by France's Military Applications Division - Earth and Environmental Science (CEA), which listed it as a magnitude 2.9 earthquake. Other agencies reporting the same quake include The Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology (HNLUG) at magnitude 2.4, and the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 2.3.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Moselkern (pop. 710) located 5 km from the epicenter, Treis-Karden (pop. 2,300) 6 km away, and Kastellaun (pop. 5,300) 10 km away. In Emmelshausen (pop. 4,900, 12 km away), Boppard (pop. 16,200, 17 km away), Mayen (pop. 19,400, 23 km away), Lahnstein (pop. 18,700, 24 km away), and Koblenz (pop. 107,300, 27 km away), the quake was probably not felt.
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