Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Mandali in Iraq

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. The temblor was picked up at 22:14:19 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000cps7. Event ids that are associated: us2000cps7. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.91 km (12 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 19:14:19 / January 12, 2018 @ 7:14 pm. Exact location of event, depth 19.91 km, 45.6615° East, 33.7073° North.

Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Mehrān, Al Miqdādīyah (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km ESE of Mandali, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Al Miqdādīyah Īlām Iran Iraq Mandali Mehrān Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.6615° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7073° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.91 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	2018-01-12 19:14:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-10 19:48:58	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	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	1.407	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us2000cps7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cps7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cps7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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