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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 41 km N of Borazjan, Iran


Earthquake location 29.6342S, 51.1598WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Borazjan in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200040fc. Ids that are associated to the event: us200040fc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/15 / 2015-10-25 14:26:15 / October 25, 2015 @ 2:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:56:15 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 51.1598° East, 29.6342° North.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Dogonbadan (c. 94 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khārk, Dogonbadan, Bandar-e Būshehr (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km N of Borazjan, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.1598° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.6342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km N of Borazjan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-25 14:26:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 19:44:11 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 284 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 6.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us200040fc Id of event.
Event Code 200040fc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040fc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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