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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Dāmghān in Iran


Earthquake location 36.3614S, 54.4661WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Dāmghān in Iran. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bev6. Id of event: us7000bev6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:01:03 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 19:01:03 / August 29, 2020 @ 7:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 54.4661° East, 36.3614° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Behshahr, Gorgān, Shahrud. Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Gorgān (c. 244 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Shahrud (c. 131 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Behshahr (c. 93 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Dāmghān (c. 67 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 24 km NNE of Dāmghān, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.4661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km NNE of Dāmghān, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-29 19:01:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-30 04:22:12 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 3.8 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 247 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 6.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000bev6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bev6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bev6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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