Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Mandali in Iraq

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. The temblor was reported at 11:47:58 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000ci9w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ci9w. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 08:17:58 / January 11, 2018 @ 8:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 45.7663 East, latitude 33.7824 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mehrān, Al Miqdādīyah, Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb. Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km E of Mandali, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Al Miqdādīyah Īlām Iran Iraq Mandali Mehrān Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.7663° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7824° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km 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 08:17:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-31 10:10:06	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	284	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	1.331	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us2000ci9w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ci9w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ci9w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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