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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 24 km NNE of Shushtar, Iran


Earthquake location 32.2437S, 48.9773WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Shushtar in Iran on Monday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:08:06 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000488s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000488s. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 19:38:06 / July 1, 2019 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 48.9773° East, latitude 32.2437° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūsh, Masjed Soleymān, Shūshtar. Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km NNE of Shushtar, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.9773° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNE of Shushtar, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-01 19:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-01 20:27:30 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 3.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us7000488s Id of event.
Event Code 7000488s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000488s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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