A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. Global time and date of event 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 20:19:40 / January 11, 2018 @ 8:19 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:19:40 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 45.7028 East, latitude 33.5562 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000cpb2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpb2.
Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Al Miqdādīyah, Īlām, Mehrān.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 25 km SSE of Mandali, Iraq.
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