A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. Exact location of event, longitude 45.5946 East, latitude 33.5019 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 13:16:41 / January 11, 2018 @ 1:16 pm. Unique identifier: us2000ci8s. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ci8s. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:16:41 / 4:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baqubah, Al ‘Azīzīyah, Al Miqdādīyah. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Al ‘Azīzīyah (c. 44 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km S of Mandali, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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