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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kerman in Iran


Earthquake location 30.796S, 57.2894WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kerman in Iran. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 21:46:41 / December 12, 2017 @ 9:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000bt5k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bt5k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:16:41 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.2894° East, 30.796° North.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Rāvar, Zarand (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 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 eleven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 60 km NNE of Kerman, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.2894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2017-12-12 21:46:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 00:05:29 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 354 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 5.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us1000bt5k Id of event.
Event Code 1000bt5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bt5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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