Earthquakes – Algerian Coast

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Moderate earthquake near Bejaia (Algeria) – At least 11 people treated for various injuries

Last update: May 27, 2013 at 8:50 am by By

Update May 27, 08:39 UTC : Several houses and buildings showed cracked walls in Tichy, Baccaro and Aokas, east of the city of Bejaia. These areas were closest to the epicenter. According to the same sources, the Aokas mosque was slightly damaged.

Slight damage at mosque tower in Aokas - image courtesy Aokas forum

Slight damage at mosque tower in Aokas – image courtesy Aokas forum

Update 22:12 UTC : Local press reports are indicating that 11 people have been treated for various indications in local hospitals. 2 students were injured while jumping out of a window in panic (never do that yourself).  Other people had nervous breakdowns. None of the injured had direct shaking injuries as far as we could see.
Widespread panic was reported from the locations closest to the epicenter (including Bejaia). People ran out in the streets and stayed there for a while out of fear for aftershocks.
We expect a better roundup tomorrow morning.

Update 17:24 UTC : According to some Twitter sources, 4 persons are reported injured (to be confirmed).
This earthquake can be called an aftershock of the M5.5 earthquake which struck the same area on May 19.
The city/village of Aokas is closest to the epicenter. As the epicenter was however in the Mediterranean Sea, the shaking impact will have been weakened somewhat.

Image courtesy Madi Nasser - View of Aokas

Image courtesy Madi Nasser – View of Aokas

Update : On vous invite de nous envoyer votre témoignage par le formulaire ci-dessous. Merci d’Avance.
We would like to invite you to send us which shaking you have experienced when you have felt this earthquake. Thank you.

The moderate earthquakes at the Northern Aleria coast seem not to stop the last couple of weeks. This time the epicenter was located close to the Bejaia coast. Bedjaia is a big city with 164000 inhabitants.
We expect at least some minor damage from this earthquake.

image courtesy EMSC

image courtesy EMSC

194 km E of Algiers, Algeria / pop: 1,977,663 / local time: 17:00:57.0 2013-05-26
12 km E of Bejaïa, Algeria / pop: 164,103 / local time: 17:00:57.0 2013-05-26

Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 5

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-05-26 17:00:57

GMT/UTC Time : 2013-05-26 16:00:57

Depth (Hypocenter)  : 8 km

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/05/26/moderate-earthquake-northern-algeria-on-may-26-2013/