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


Earthquake location 28.4937S, 52.0077WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Firuzabad in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 52.0077 East, latitude 28.4937 North, depth = 32.79 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007el6. Id of event: us10007el6. Global time and date of event 03/12/16 / 2016-12-03 12:37:12 / December 3, 2016 @ 12:37 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:07:12 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.79 km (20 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fīrūzābād (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km SW of Firuzabad, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 52.0077° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.4937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km SW of Firuzabad, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-03 12:37:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 13:56:33 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 284 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 5.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us10007el6 Id of event.
Event Code 10007el6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007el6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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