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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 38 km NNE of Mandali, Iraq


Earthquake location 34.065S, 45.7236WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Mandali in Iraq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 14:15:08 / January 6, 2019 @ 2:15 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 45.7236 East, latitude 34.065 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000j0tq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0tq. The temblor was picked up at 17:45:08 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kifrī, Īlām, Al Miqdādīyah (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 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 five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-eight 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 38 km NNE of Mandali, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.7236° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.065° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNE 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 2019-01-06 14:15:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-06 14:51:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 369 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 1.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us2000j0tq Id of event.
Event Code 2000j0tq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j0tq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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