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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 7 km N of Kuh Sefid, Iran

Posted by admin on August 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.3417S, 56.8107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kuh Sefid in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/18 / 2018-08-23 05:19:03 / August 23, 2018 @ 5:19 am. Exact location of event, longitude 56.8107 East, latitude 29.3417 North, depth = 94.45 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:49:03 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000gfwd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gfwd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.45 km (59 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Bardsīr (c. 37 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bardsīr.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km N of Kuh Sefid, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.8107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.3417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Kuh Sefid, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-23 05:19:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-23 08:04:06 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 326 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 0.818 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us1000gfwd Id of event.
Event Code 1000gfwd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gfwd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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