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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 28 km SW of Halabjah, Iraq


Earthquake location 35.0189S, 45.734WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Halabjah in Iraq on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 14:42:40 / December 11, 2017 @ 2:42 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.99 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: us2000c2ug. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c2ug. Exact location, longitude 45.734° East, latitude 35.0189° North, depth = 12.99 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:42:40 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jamjamāl, Kifrī, Javānrūd (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Baynjiwayn (c. 27 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SW of Halabjah, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.734° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW of Halabjah, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-11 14:42:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-11 15:26:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c2ug Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2ug An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2ug, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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