A 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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