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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Mandali in Iraq

Posted by admin on January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.6916S, 45.6616WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Mandali in Iraq on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 07:52:47 / January 11, 2018 @ 7:52 am. The temblor was detected at 10:52:47 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.6616 East, latitude 33.6916 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000ci4e. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ci4e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Mehrān, Al Miqdādīyah. Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 11 km ESE of Mandali, Iraq.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.6916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE of Mandali, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-11 07:52:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 08:56:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 1.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us2000ci4e Id of event.
Event Code 2000ci4e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ci4e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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