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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Jamjamāl in Iraq

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Jamjamāl in Iraq on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 23:18:24 / November 9, 2020 @ 11:18 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:18:24 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000ccpb. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ccpb. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.0833° East, 35.4249° North.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kirkuk (c. 601 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Bāneh (c. 104 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Jamjamāl (c. 75 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Koysinceq (c. 45 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bāneh, , Koysinceq (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km ESE of Jamjamāl, Iraq. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

As Sulaymānīyah Bāneh Iran Iraq Jamjamāl Kirkuk Koysinceq Tozkhurmato

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.0833° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.4249° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km ESE of Jamjamāl, Iraq	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-09 23:18:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-09 23:35:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	357	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	0.376	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us7000ccpb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ccpb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ccpb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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