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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 77 km SE of Borazjan, Iran


Earthquake location 28.7512S, 51.7498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Borazjan in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, 51.7498° East, 28.7512° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/19 / 2019-12-03 14:43:07 / December 3, 2019 @ 2:43 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:13:07 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60006q94. Unique identifier: us60006q94. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bandar-e Būshehr, Fīrūzābād, Borāzjān. Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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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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. 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: 77 km SE of Borazjan, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.7498° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.7512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SE 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 2019-12-03 14:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-11 22:03:56 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 271 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 5.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us60006q94 Id of event.
Event Code 60006q94 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006q94, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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