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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Kerman in Iran

Posted by admin on September 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.042S, 57.643WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kerman in Iran on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 57.643 East, latitude 30.042 North, depth = 8 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:51:16 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 01:21:16 / August 21, 2015 @ 1:21 am. Unique identifier: us100033v8. Ids that are associated to the event: us100033v8.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermān.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 60 km ESE of Kerman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.643° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.042° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km ESE of Kerman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-21 01:21:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 02:59:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 234 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us100033v8 Id of event.
Event Code 100033v8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033v8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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