M4.8 earthquake 2 km ENE of Haanrade, Netherlands

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 2 km ENE of Haanrade, Netherlands on Mon, Jul 22, 2002, 7:45 AM GMT+2 (05:45 UTC), 17 km (11 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 4.8 (mb, body-wave), light
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Mon, Jul 22, 2002, 7:45 AM GMT+2
UTC: 2002-07-22 05:45:03 UTC
Depth: 17.2 km (10.7 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 50.889° N, 6.103° E
Region: The Netherlands
Strongest shaking: VI, strong shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 5573), matched to this event by time and place.

Damage: Limited (under about $1 million)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Minor damage and objects knocked off shelves in the Aachen-Cologne-Spangdahlem area. Also felt in eastern Belgium and in the Brunssum-Schimmert area, The Netherlands.

From the USGS event page for usp000b8j3. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: VI, strong shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 14.1% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 1.8 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
Stations used: 328

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 32 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000b8j3 (also filed as atlas20020722054503). Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC.