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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 8 km ENE of As Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Posted by admin on June 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.592S, 45.5202WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from As Sulaymaniyah in Iraq on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 45.5202° East, latitude 35.592° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 02:42:16 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000emv7. Id of event: us1000emv7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 23:42:16 / June 8, 2018 @ 11:42 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jamjamāl, Bāneh. Earthquake epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bāneh (c. 104 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Baynjiwayn (c. 27 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km ENE of As Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.5202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of As Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 23:42:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-10 21:31:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 189 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 0.057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000emv7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000emv7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000emv7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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