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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Bojnurd in Iran

Posted by admin on June 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5122S, 57.504WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Bojnurd in Iran. Event id: us10005yhx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005yhx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:26:14 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.504° East, 37.5122° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 22:56:14 / June 29, 2016 @ 10:56 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Ashgabat (c. 727 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Bojnūrd (c. 192 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Esfarāyen (c. 59 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Abadan (c. 39 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Annau (c. 27 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Annau, Ashgabat, Abadan.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km ENE of Bojnurd, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE of Bojnurd, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-29 22:56:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 23:30:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 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 340 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 0.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10005yhx Id of event.
Event Code 10005yhx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005yhx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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