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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 18 km W of Borujerd, Iran


Earthquake location 33.8889S, 48.5494WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Borujerd in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.5494 East, latitude 33.8889 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hdxq. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hdxq. Global time and date of event 18/10/18 / 2018-10-18 15:14:47 / October 18, 2018 @ 3:14 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:44:47 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Khorramābād (c. 329 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Borūjerd (c. 252 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Malāyer (c. 176 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kūhdasht (c. 100 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nahāvand (c. 76 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 73 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kangāvar (c. 53 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kūhdasht, Kangāvar, Nūrābād (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 18 km W of Borujerd, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.5494° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.8889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km W of Borujerd, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-18 15:14:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-18 15:45:41 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 2 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 2.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us1000hdxq Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdxq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdxq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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