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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kerman in Iran


Earthquake location 30.6696S, 57.2864WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kerman in Iran. Id of earthquake: us1000bt4z. Event ids that are associated: us1000bt4z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 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). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 13:22:39 / December 12, 2017 @ 1:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 57.2864 East, latitude 30.6696 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:52:39 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāvar, Zarand, Kermān. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km NNE of Kerman, Iran. This data 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 57.2864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km 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 13:22:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-27 20:00:56 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 5.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us1000bt4z Id of event.
Event Code 1000bt4z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bt4z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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