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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Paynjuwayn in Iraq

Posted by admin on September 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.4387S, 46.166WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Paynjuwayn in Iraq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/19 / 2019-09-17 19:29:57 / September 17, 2019 @ 7:29 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 46.166° East, 35.4387° North, depth 19.46 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.46 km (12 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:59:57 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005hlq. Id of event: us70005hlq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saqqez, Javānrūd, Sanandaj. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sanandaj (c. 349 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Saqqez (c. 151 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bāneh (c. 104 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Baynjiwayn (c. 27 100 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SE of Paynjuwayn, Iraq. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.166° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE of Paynjuwayn, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-17 19:29:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-17 20:55:00 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 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 0.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us70005hlq Id of event.
Event Code 70005hlq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005hlq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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