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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Herowabad in Iran


Earthquake location 37.4492S, 48.7455WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Herowabad in Iran on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009psu. Id of event: us20009psu. The temblor was reported at 03:29:29 / 3:29 am (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 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/17 / 2017-06-26 23:59:29 / June 26, 2017 @ 11:59 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 48.7455 East, latitude 37.4492 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Rasht (c. 594 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Zanjān (c. 357 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bandar-e Anzalī (c. 110 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Khalkhāl (c. 51 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hashtpar (c. 45 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zanjān, Rasht, Bandar-e Anzalī. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 27 km SE of Herowabad, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.7455° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4492° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE of Herowabad, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-26 23:59:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-27 00:25:01 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 246 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 4.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us20009psu Id of event.
Event Code 20009psu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009psu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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