Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 50 km SW of Halabjah, Iraq

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Halabjah in Iraq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.5299 East, latitude 34.9152 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:42:36 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/17 / 2017-11-22 16:42:36 / November 22, 2017 @ 4:42 pm. Unique identifier: us2000bsx1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bsx1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jamjamāl, Javānrūd, Baynjiwayn. Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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

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As Sulaymānīyah Baynjiwayn Halabjah Iran Iraq Jamjamāl Javānrūd Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb Tozkhurmato

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.5299° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9152° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km SW of Halabjah, Iraq	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-22 16:42:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-22 22:22:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	272	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	0.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us2000bsx1	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bsx1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bsx1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

45.5299° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

34.9152° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

50km SW of Halabjah, Iraq

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-11-22 16:42:36

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-22 22:22:39

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

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

272

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.254

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.28 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

174

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000bsx1

Id of event.

Event Code

2000bsx1

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000bsx1,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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