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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 3 km NW of Tiberias, Israel


Earthquake location 32.8179S, 35.5051WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tiberias in Israel. Exact location of earthquake, 35.5051° East, 32.8179° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 19:45:40 / July 4, 2018 @ 7:45 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000fx3m. Event ids that are associated: us2000fx3m. The temblor was detected at 21:45:40 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zarqa, Bīr Zayt, Dārayyā (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Israel (c. 7 354 000 pop), Jordan (c. 6 407 000 pop), Lebanon (c. 4 125 000 pop), Palestinian Territory (c. 3 800 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Zarqa (c. 792 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Irbid (c. 307 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Haifa (c. 267 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Netanya (c. 171 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sidon (c. 163 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tyre (c. 135 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Nablus (c. 130 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 3 km NW of Tiberias, Israel. This information 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 35.5051° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NW of Tiberias, Israel Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-04 19:45:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 20:54:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 1.511 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000fx3m Id of event.
Event Code 2000fx3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fx3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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