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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Gerash in Iran

Posted by admin on January 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.5354S, 53.4768WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Gerash in Iran. Unique identifier: us10004cf8. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004cf8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 20:44:54 / January 8, 2016 @ 8:44 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.1 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 53.4768 East, latitude 27.5354 North, depth = 23.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:14:54 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh.

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 twelve 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 66 km WSW of Gerash, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.4768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.5354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km WSW of Gerash, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-08 20:44:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-09 18:42:58 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 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 0.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us10004cf8 Id of event.
Event Code 10004cf8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004cf8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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