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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Mandali in Iraq


Earthquake location 33.4388S, 45.651WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mandali in Iraq on Sunday. Event id: us1000cdsh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cdsh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/18 / 2018-01-21 13:21:30 / January 21, 2018 @ 1:21 pm. The temblor was reported at 16:21:30 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 45.651 East, latitude 33.4388 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Al ‘Azīzīyah (c. 44 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Al Miqdādīyah, Al ‘Azīzīyah, Īlām. Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 35 km SSE of Mandali, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.651° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSE 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 2018-01-21 13:21:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-01 21:07:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 1.674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 us1000cdsh Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdsh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdsh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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