- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 25, 2003 CE
- Location:
- Algeria
- Magnitude:
- 4.47 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.47
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.35
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.35
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.94
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.82
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.82
Other earthquake records of 2003 CE
- Iran, Southeastern: Bam, Baravat · Mw 6.6 · 31,000 deaths
- Algeria, Algiers, Boumerdes, Reghia, Thenia · Mw 6.8 · 2,287 deaths
- China, S. Xinjiang: Bachu · Mw 6.3 · 261 deaths
- Turkey, Bingol · Mw 6.4 · 177 deaths
- Mexico, Villa De Alvarez, Colima, Tecoman, Jalisco · Mw 7.5 · 29 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Mw 5.9 · 16 deaths
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 2003 Algeria earthquake (Mw 4.5) (2003 CE) happen?
- April 25, 2003 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.