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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Paveh in Iran


Earthquake location 35.0018S, 46.5294WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Paveh in Iran on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 02:51:56 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 23:21:56 / June 12, 2019 @ 11:21 pm. Unique identifier: us6000407y. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000407y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 46.5294° East, latitude 35.0018° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermānshāh, Baynjiwayn, Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sanandaj (c. 349 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km ESE of Paveh, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.5294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Paveh, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-12 23:21:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 23:47:51 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 259 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 4.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000407y Id of event.
Event Code 6000407y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000407y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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