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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran

Posted by admin on November 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.5645S, 46.1985WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:49:06 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 46.1985 East, latitude 34.5645 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000ht9l. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ht9l. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/18 / 2018-11-17 19:19:06 / November 17, 2018 @ 7:19 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermānshāh, Kahrīz, Kāmyārān. Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pāveh (c. 17 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km ENE of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.1985° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km ENE of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-17 19:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-17 23:56:54 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 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 0.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us1000ht9l Id of event.
Event Code 1000ht9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ht9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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