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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 15 km NE of Sinah, Iraq


Earthquake location 36.8988S, 43.1718WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Sinah in Iraq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:56:24 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70004gqm. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004gqm. Exact location, longitude 43.1718° East, latitude 36.8988° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 10:56:24 / July 10, 2019 @ 10:56 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Şırnak, Hakkari, Beytüşşebap (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (39 miles) from Al Mawşil al Jadīdah (c. 2 065 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mosul (c. 1 739 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Dihok (c. 284 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Sīnah (c. 128 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Zaxo (c. 95 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hakkari (c. 77 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 15 km NE of Sinah, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.1718° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE of Sinah, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-10 10:56:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 11:42:23 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 1.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us70004gqm Id of event.
Event Code 70004gqm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004gqm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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