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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Gerash in Iran

Posted by admin on April 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.757S, 53.4981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Gerash in Iran. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dq4p. Unique identifier: us1000dq4p. The temblor was reported at 04:42:22 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.67 km (11 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 53.4981° East, 27.757° North, depth 17.67 km. Global time and date of event 22/04/18 / 2018-04-22 01:12:22 / April 22, 2018 @ 1:12 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km W of Gerash, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.4981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km W of Gerash, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-22 01:12:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-22 01:44:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 312 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 3.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000dq4p Id of event.
Event Code 1000dq4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dq4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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