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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Gorgan in Iran


Earthquake location 37.1841S, 54.4607WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Gorgan in Iran. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 17:35:51 / September 15, 2015 @ 5:35 pm. Exact location, longitude 54.4607° East, latitude 37.1841° North, depth = 25.75 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003jq6. Id of event: us20003jq6. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.75 km (16 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:05:51 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalāleh, Āzādshahr, Gonbad-e Kāvūs (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Gorgān (c. 244 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Gonbad-e Kāvūs (c. 131 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Āzādshahr (c. 47 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kalāleh (c. 33 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Āq Qāyeh (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 38 km N of Gorgan, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.4607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km N of Gorgan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-15 17:35:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-15 18:24:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 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 298 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 2.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us20003jq6 Id of event.
Event Code 20003jq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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