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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Aleshtar in Iran

Posted by admin on May 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.7744S, 48.1209WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Aleshtar in Iran. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.1209 East, latitude 33.7744 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 08:08:00 / May 6, 2020 @ 8:08 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:38:00 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009axp. Unique identifier: us70009axp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Darreh Shahr, Malāyer, Kangāvar. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Khorramābād (c. 329 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Borūjerd (c. 252 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Malāyer (c. 176 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kūhdasht (c. 100 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Nahāvand (c. 76 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 73 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Harsīn (c. 57 600 pop).

Each 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 one and in the last 365 days six 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 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km SW of Aleshtar, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.1209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SW of Aleshtar, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-06 08:08:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 08:25:00 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 354 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 2.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us70009axp Id of event.
Event Code 70009axp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009axp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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