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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 64 km NNE of Kerman, Iran


Earthquake location 30.8296S, 57.3209WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Kerman in Iran on Saturday. Unique identifier: us2000c55u. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c55u. Global time and date of event 16/12/17 / 2017-12-16 02:20:31 / December 16, 2017 @ 2:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.3209° East, 30.8296° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:50:31 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Zarand, Rāvar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km NNE of Kerman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.3209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNE of Kerman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-16 02:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-16 02:36:26 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 5.461 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us2000c55u Id of event.
Event Code 2000c55u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c55u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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