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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Jahrom in Iran

Posted by admin on September 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.059S, 53.6657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Jahrom in Iran on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003jdb. Id of event: us10003jdb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 22:26:37 / September 30, 2015 @ 10:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:56:37 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 53.6657° East, latitude 28.059° North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gerāsh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km SSE of Jahrom, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.6657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SSE of Jahrom, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-30 22:26:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-30 23:05:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 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 3.845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10003jdb Id of event.
Event Code 10003jdb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003jdb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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