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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran


Earthquake location 34.5902S, 45.4786WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran on Thursday. Unique identifier: us2000d12d. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d12d. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:48 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 20:14:48 / February 1, 2018 @ 8:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 45.4786 East, latitude 34.5902 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Tozkhurmato (c. 59 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pāveh, Mandalī, Al Miqdādīyah (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km WNW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.4786° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WNW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-01 20:14:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 19:14:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 0.561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000d12d Id of event.
Event Code 2000d12d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d12d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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