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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Damavand in Iran

Posted by admin on May 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7252S, 52.0572WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Damavand in Iran on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 20:18:22 / May 7, 2020 @ 8:18 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:48:22 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009bxr. Event ids that are associated: us70009bxr. Exact location, longitude 52.0572° East, latitude 35.7252° North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malārd, Karaj, Shahre Jadide Andisheh. Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Tehrān (c. 7 153 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Karaj (c. 1 448 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Qarchak (c. 251 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Āmol (c. 199 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Varāmīn (c. 179 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Shahre Jadide Andisheh (c. 80 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Robāţ Karīm (c. 62 800 pop).

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 one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NW of Damavand, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 52.0572° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW of Damavand, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-07 20:18:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-07 21:38:43 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 326 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 5.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us70009bxr Id of event.
Event Code 70009bxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009bxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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