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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kirkuk in Iraq


Earthquake location 35.6367S, 44.2425WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kirkuk in Iraq. The temblor was detected at 10:13:56 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008gdm. Id of event: us60008gdm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 07:13:56 / March 16, 2020 @ 7:13 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 44.2425 East, latitude 35.6367 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Erbil (c. 932 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Kirkuk (c. 601 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Koysinceq (c. 45 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tozkhurmato, Erbil, Koysinceq (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 23 km NW of Kirkuk, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 44.2425° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Kirkuk, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-16 07:13:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-16 07:59:50 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 298 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 0.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us60008gdm Id of event.
Event Code 60008gdm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008gdm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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