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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Fereydun Kenar in Iran

Posted by admin on March 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7098S, 52.3141WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Fereydun Kenar in Iran. Id of earthquake: us20005bzm. Event ids that are associated: us20005bzm. The temblor was detected at 12:18:25 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 52.3141° East, 36.7098° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 07:48:25 / March 23, 2016 @ 7:48 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nekā, Chālūs, Nowshahr (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Sari (c. 255 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bābol (c. 202 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Āmol (c. 199 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chālūs (c. 69 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nekā (c. 48 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Bābolsar (c. 48 100 pop).

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

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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: 18 km W of Fereydun Kenar, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 52.3141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7098° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km W of Fereydun Kenar, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-23 07:48:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-23 09:01:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 285 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 4.782 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us20005bzm Id of event.
Event Code 20005bzm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bzm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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