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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Behshahr in Iran

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Behshahr in Iran on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 53.5556° East, latitude 36.2943° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:04:42 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 03:04:42 / September 13, 2020 @ 3:04 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000bmlb. Event ids that are associated: us7000bmlb.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bābolsar, Bābol, Semnān. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Sari (c. 255 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bābol (c. 202 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Semnān (c. 124 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Behshahr (c. 93 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Dāmghān (c. 67 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Nekā (c. 48 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bābolsar (c. 48 100 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 44 km S of Behshahr, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	53.5556° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2943° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km S of Behshahr, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-13 03:04:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-13 03:19:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	312	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	6.482	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us7000bmlb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bmlb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bmlb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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