Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Chamchamal in Iraq


Earthquake location 35.4534S, 44.7837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Chamchamal in Iraq on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 08:36:23 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 44.7837° East, 35.4534° North. Id of earthquake: us70008xln. Event ids that are associated: us70008xln. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 05:36:23 / April 9, 2020 @ 5:36 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kifrī, Koysinceq, Tozkhurmato. Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kirkuk (c. 601 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Koysinceq (c. 45 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSW of Chamchamal, Iraq. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 44.7837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Chamchamal, Iraq Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-09 05:36:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 09:40:15 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 259 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 0.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us70008xln Id of event.
Event Code 70008xln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008xln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply