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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 13 km ESE of Mandali, Iraq


Earthquake location 33.7172S, 45.6934WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mandali in Iraq on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpan. Id of event: us2000cpan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:51:33 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 07:21:33 / January 11, 2018 @ 7:21 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 45.6934 East, latitude 33.7172 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baqubah, Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Mehrān. The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km ESE of Mandali, Iraq. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE 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 07:21:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-31 09:19:38 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 340 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 1.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us2000cpan Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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