A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kuysinjaq in Iraq on Monday. Global time and date of event 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 19:20:45 / February 19, 2018 @ 7:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:20:45 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 44.8701° East, 35.9965° North, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4wi. Unique identifier: us2000d4wi.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bāneh, Piranshahr, Erbil. Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Erbil (c. 932 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kirkuk (c. 601 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bāneh (c. 104 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Piranshahr (c. 62 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Koysinceq (c. 45 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ESE of Kuysinjaq, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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