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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Javanrud in Iran


Earthquake location 34.4246S, 46.4567WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Javanrud in Iran on Friday. Global time and date of event 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 20:17:07 / December 1, 2017 @ 8:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:47:07 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000bk2g. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bk2g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 46.4567° East, 34.4246° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Īlām, Pāveh. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km S of Javanrud, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.4567° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km S of Javanrud, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-01 20:17:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-01 21:48:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 312 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 0.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000bk2g Id of event.
Event Code 1000bk2g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bk2g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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