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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Mandali in Iraq

Posted by admin on January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.8093S, 45.796WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.796° East, 33.8093° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 07:00:52 / January 11, 2018 @ 7:00 am. Id of earthquake: us2000ci3x. Event ids that are associated: us2000ci3x. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:30:52 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baqubah, Mehrān, Al Miqdādīyah (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (66 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 23 km ENE of Mandali, Iraq.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.8093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Mandali, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-11 07:00:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 07:52:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 432 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 1.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000ci3x Id of event.
Event Code 2000ci3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ci3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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