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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran


Earthquake location 26.0591S, 54.7317WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran. The temblor was detected at 04:45:21 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us700062rg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700062rg. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/19 / 2019-11-04 00:45:21 / November 4, 2019 @ 12:45 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 54.7317 East, latitude 26.0591 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh (c. 22 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kīsh (c. 20 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kīsh, Bandar-e Lengeh (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km SSW of Bandar-e Lengeh, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.7317° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.0591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSW of Bandar-e Lengeh, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-04 00:45:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-04 00:56:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 1.732 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us700062rg Id of event.
Event Code 700062rg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062rg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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