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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Iran-Iraq border region


Earthquake location 34.2547S, 45.6609WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Iran-Iraq border region kilometers (0 miles) from Iran-Iraq border region. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:10:38 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ajxw. Unique identifier: us7000ajxw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/20 / 2020-07-08 07:10:38 / July 8, 2020 @ 7:10 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 45.6609 East, latitude 34.2547 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kifrī, Al Miqdādīyah, Mandalī (min 5000 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Iran-Iraq border region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6609° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2547° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Iran-Iraq border region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-08 07:10:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-08 08:13:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.861 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000ajxw Id of event.
Event Code 7000ajxw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ajxw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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