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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Borazjan in Iran

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Borazjan in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, 51.3666° East, 29.4174° North, depth 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:27:29 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 07:57:29 / January 2, 2019 @ 7:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000izsm. Unique identifier: us2000izsm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop). Nearby 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 Bandar-e Ganāveh, Nūrābād, Bandar-e Būshehr.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NE of Borazjan, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	51.3666° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.4174° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NE of Borazjan, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-02 07:57:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-02 08:14:22	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	354	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	6.196	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us2000izsm	Id of event.
Event Code	2000izsm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000izsm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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