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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Dezful in Iran

Posted by admin on November 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.7087S, 48.7011WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Dezful in Iran. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 03:17:25 / November 20, 2017 @ 3:17 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:47:25 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000brp5. Event ids that are associated: us2000brp5. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.7011 East, latitude 32.7087 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Khorramābād (c. 329 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorramābād, Shūshtar, Shūsh.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 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: 45 km NE of Dezful, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.7011° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.7087° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NE of Dezful, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-20 03:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 03:56:15 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 3.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us2000brp5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000brp5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brp5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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