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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Akbarabad in Iran


Earthquake location 29.281S, 53.1571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Akbarabad in Iran. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 53.1571° East, 29.281° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 14:46:45 / May 12, 2019 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003k1y. Id of event: us70003k1y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:16:45 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fīrūzābād, Shiraz, Fasā. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Shiraz (c. 1 249 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Akbarābād (c. 98 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fasā (c. 98 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 36 km E of Akbarabad, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.1571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km E of Akbarabad, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-12 14:46:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-12 15:23:33 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 5.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70003k1y Id of event.
Event Code 70003k1y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003k1y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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