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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Umm Qasr in Iraq


Earthquake location 30.0252S, 47.7435WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Umm Qasr in Iraq. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:22 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 20:49:22 / November 15, 2019 @ 8:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 47.7435° East, 30.0252° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us700068m6. Event ids that are associated: us700068m6.

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Al Başrah (c. 2 600 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Al Başrat al Qadīmah (c. 2 015 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Abadan (c. 370 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Khorramshahr (c. 330 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from (c. 164 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from As Sālimīyah (c. 147 600 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Kuwait (c. 2 789 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salwá, Janūb as Surrah.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km W of Umm Qasr, Iraq.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 47.7435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.0252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Umm Qasr, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-15 20:49:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-19 16:16:46 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 271 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 5.356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us700068m6 Id of event.
Event Code 700068m6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700068m6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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