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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near southern Iran


Earthquake location 27.7484S, 53.5008WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, southern Iran kilometers (0 miles) from southern Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:14:06 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000almy. Event ids that are associated: us7000almy. Exact location of event, longitude 53.5008 East, latitude 27.7484 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/20 / 2020-07-10 20:14:06 / July 10, 2020 @ 8:14 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: southern Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.5008° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.7484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-10 20:14:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-10 21:37:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.1 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 370 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 3.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us7000almy Id of event.
Event Code 7000almy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000almy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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