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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Minab in Iran


Earthquake location 28.1411S, 57.2346WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 111 km N of Minab, Iran (69 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007n0l. Unique identifier: us10007n0l. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.71 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 57.2346 East, latitude 28.1411 North, depth = 12.71 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 12:26:37 / December 27, 2016 @ 12:26 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:56:37 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter).

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 seven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 111 km N of Minab, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.2346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km N of Minab, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-27 12:26:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-27 13:31:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10007n0l Id of event.
Event Code 10007n0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007n0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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