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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 32 km ESE of Kazerun, Iran

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Kazerun in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000byan. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000byan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 51.9518 East, latitude 29.4882 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/17 / 2017-12-30 20:53:25 / December 30, 2017 @ 8:53 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:23:25 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fīrūzābād, Akbarābād, Nūrābād (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Shiraz (c. 1 249 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Akbarābād (c. 98 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 32 km ESE of Kazerun, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	51.9518° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.4882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km ESE of Kazerun, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-30 20:53:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-30 22:47:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	210	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	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	356	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	7.7	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us1000byan	Id of event.
Event Code	1000byan	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000byan,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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