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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Susangerd in Iran


Earthquake location 31.3121S, 48.2291WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Susangerd in Iran. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/18 / 2018-11-11 13:49:19 / November 11, 2018 @ 1:49 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:19:19 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 48.2291° East, 31.3121° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hsv2. Id of event: us1000hsv2.

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Al Hārithah (c. 92 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sūsangerd (c. 41 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Shādegān (c. 37 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shādegān, Al Hārithah, Ahvaz (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 27 km S of Susangerd, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.2291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km S of Susangerd, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-11 13:49:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-18 15:23:25 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 298 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 4.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us1000hsv2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hsv2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hsv2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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