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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Al Miqdadiyah in Iraq


Earthquake location 33.9141S, 45.1538WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Al Miqdadiyah in Iraq. The temblor was reported at 15:06:04 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.1538° East, 33.9141° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 12:06:04 / March 12, 2019 @ 12:06 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000je35. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000je35.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baghdad, Balad, Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb. Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Baghdad (c. 5 672 500 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Baqubah (c. 152 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Khāliş (c. 70 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Balad (c. 42 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop).

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 thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 21 km ESE of Al Miqdadiyah, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.1538° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9141° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ESE of Al Miqdadiyah, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-12 12:06:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-19 08:08:34 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 326 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 1.732 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us1000je35 Id of event.
Event Code 1000je35 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000je35, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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