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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sirjan in Iran

Posted by admin on May 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.2152S, 55.7573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Sirjan in Iran on Thursday. Global time and date of event 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 17:36:04 / April 26, 2018 @ 5:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 55.7573° East, 29.2152° North, depth 16.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.38 km (10 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000dsup. Event ids that are associated: us1000dsup. The temblor was detected at 21:06:04 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sirjan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Sirjan (c. 207 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km SSE of Sirjan, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 55.7573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2152° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE of Sirjan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-26 17:36:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 16:33:10 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 271 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 4.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us1000dsup Id of event.
Event Code 1000dsup An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dsup, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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