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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Jahrom in Iran

Posted by admin on July 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.0057S, 53.2806WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jahrom in Iran. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 08:52:44 / June 21, 2018 @ 8:52 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000exan. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000exan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 53.2806 East, latitude 28.0057 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:22:44 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh (min 5000 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 60 km SSW of Jahrom, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.2806° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.0057° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSW of Jahrom, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-21 08:52:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-11 07:48:01 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 4.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us1000exan Id of event.
Event Code 1000exan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000exan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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