The 2010 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes began 14 May at 12:29:22 UTC, when a Mw  5.3 strike-slip earthquake occurred in Northern Algeria.

With a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (Damaging), it was the first in a sequence of three shocks that affected the Bouïra Province over a ten-day period.

Two people were killed, forty-three were injured, and some structural damage was reported.

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