Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Mandali in Iraq

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 06:59:31 / January 11, 2018 @ 6:59 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ci3s. Unique identifier: us2000ci3s. Exact location of event, longitude 45.7491 East, latitude 33.7636 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:29:31 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khāliş, Baqubah, Mehrān (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (64 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Khāliş (c. 70 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km E of Mandali, Iraq.

Al Miqdādīyah Baqubah Īlām Iran Iraq Khāliş Mandali Mehrān Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.7491° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7636° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km E 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 06:59:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-11 07:18:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	210	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	472	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	1.35	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000ci3s	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ci3s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ci3s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

45.7491° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

33.7636° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

18km E 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 06:59:31

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-01-11 07:18:40

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

3.8

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

472

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

1.35

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

Root Mean Square

0.86 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

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

Magnitude Type

mww

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000ci3s

Id of event.

Event Code

2000ci3s

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

Event IDS

,us2000ci3s,

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

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