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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near ‘Eilabun in Israel


Earthquake location 32.8084S, 35.4109WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from ‘Eilabun in Israel. Exact location of event, longitude 35.4109 East, latitude 32.8084 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:50:08 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 01:50:08 / July 4, 2018 @ 1:50 am. 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). Unique identifier: us2000fwfr. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fwfr.

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Irbid (c. 307 500 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Haifa (c. 267 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Netanya (c. 171 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sidon (c. 163 600 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Tyre (c. 135 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Nablus (c. 130 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, 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). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosh Ha‘Ayin, Banī Zayd ash Shārqīyah, Kafr Qāsim (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSE of ‘Eilabun, Israel. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.4109° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of 'Eilabun, 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 01:50:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-04 06:29:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 249 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 1.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us2000fwfr Id of event.
Event Code 2000fwfr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fwfr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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