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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Farsan in Iran

Posted by admin on November 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.9011S, 50.0413WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Farsan in Iran on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.16 km (19 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:50:32 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 50.0413 East, latitude 31.9011 North, depth = 30.16 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/16 / 2016-11-11 13:20:32 / November 11, 2016 @ 1:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100076w4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100076w4.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrekord, Rāmhormoz, Masjed Soleymān (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Shahrekord (c. 129 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 62 km SW of Farsan, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.0413° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9011° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SW of Farsan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-11 13:20:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-28 12:26:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 5.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us100076w4 Id of event.
Event Code 100076w4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076w4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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