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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran. Exact location, longitude 45.7232° East, latitude 34.3567° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hxuv. Event ids that are associated: us1000hxuv. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 13:16:23 / November 29, 2018 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:46:23 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Pāveh (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pāveh, , Javānrūd.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Al Miqdādīyah Iran Iraq Javānrūd Kifrī Mandali Pāveh Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.7232° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3567° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SW 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	2018-11-29 13:16:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-29 17:36:58	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	0.758	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	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	us1000hxuv	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hxuv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hxuv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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