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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Zarand in Iran

Posted by admin on October 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.6283S, 56.3917WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Zarand in Iran on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 18.61 km, 56.3917° East, 30.6283° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100072nk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072nk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.61 km (12 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:32:27 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 14:02:27 / October 28, 2016 @ 2:02 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rāvar, Bardsīr, Kermān (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Rafsanjān (c. 147 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bardsīr (c. 37 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SW of Zarand, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.3917° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SW of Zarand, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-28 14:02:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 14:46:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 6.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us100072nk Id of event.
Event Code 100072nk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072nk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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