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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Gerash in Iran


Earthquake location 27.155S, 53.7433WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Gerash in Iran on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 53.7433 East, latitude 27.155 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hva5. Id of event: us1000hva5. 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. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/18 / 2018-11-22 02:11:52 / November 22, 2018 @ 2:11 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:41:52 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kīsh (c. 20 900 pop). 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 Kīsh, Gerāsh.

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 68 km SW of Gerash, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.7433° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.155° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SW of Gerash, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-22 02:11:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-22 02:21:15 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 340 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 8.284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us1000hva5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hva5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hva5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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