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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 27 km ESE of Shah Pasand, Iran

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Shah Pasand in Iran on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us1000ga97. Event ids that are associated: us1000ga97. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 06:41:51 / August 16, 2018 @ 6:41 am. The temblor was reported at 10:11:51 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 55.4314 East, latitude 36.957 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorgān, Shahrud, Kalāleh. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Gorgān (c. 244 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Shahrud (c. 131 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Gonbad-e Kāvūs (c. 131 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Āzādshahr (c. 47 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kalāleh (c. 33 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Āq Qāyeh (c. 5 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km ESE of Shah Pasand, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Āq Qāyeh Āzādshahr Gonbad-e Kāvūs Gorgān Iran Kalaleh Shah Pasand Shahrud

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	55.4314° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.957° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km ESE of Shah Pasand, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-16 06:41:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-16 08:02:20	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	284	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	6.108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us1000ga97	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ga97	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ga97,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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