Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Halabjah in Iraq

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Halabjah in Iraq on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c2ue. Id of event: us2000c2ue. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.66 km (7 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:09:56 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 14:09:56 / December 11, 2017 @ 2:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.728 East, latitude 35.0015 North, depth = 11.66 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tozkhurmato, Jamjamāl, Kifrī (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 30 km SW of Halabjah, Iraq.

As Sulaymānīyah Halabjah Iran Iraq Jamjamāl Javānrūd Kifrī Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb Tozkhurmato

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.728° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0015° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km 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 14:09:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-11 14:37:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	27	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	446	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	0.115	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000c2ue	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c2ue	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c2ue,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

45.728° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.0015° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

11.66 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

30km 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 14:09:56

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-12-11 14:37:27

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

180

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

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

446

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.115

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.92 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000c2ue

Id of event.

Event Code

2000c2ue

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000c2ue,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Halabjah in Iraq

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information