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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Do Gonbadan in Iran


Earthquake location 30.6195S, 50.9072WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Do Gonbadan in Iran on Wednesday. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:30:13 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000awmu. Unique identifier: us2000awmu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 21:00:13 / September 19, 2017 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 50.9072 East, latitude 30.6195 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nūrābād, Yasuj, Behbahān. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Yasuj (c. 96 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Dogonbadan (c. 94 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Behbahān (c. 79 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Dehdasht (c. 69 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 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 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 30 km NNE of Do Gonbadan, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.9072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6195° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NNE of Do Gonbadan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-19 21:00:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 00:20:33 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 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 6.765 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us2000awmu Id of event.
Event Code 2000awmu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awmu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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