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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Mandali in Iraq

Posted by admin on January 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.7612S, 45.6596WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Mandali in Iraq on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 22:17:57 / January 19, 2018 @ 10:17 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:47:57 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.6596 East, latitude 33.7612 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000clji. Event ids that are associated: us2000clji. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baqubah, Mehrān, Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fifteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 9 km E of Mandali, Iraq.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2018-01-19 22:17:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-19 22:30:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 370 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 1.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us2000clji Id of event.
Event Code 2000clji An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000clji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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