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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 50 km ESE of Bushehr, Iran


Earthquake location 28.7704S, 51.2994WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Bushehr in Iran on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 23:23:36 / September 27, 2020 @ 11:23 pm. Unique identifier: us6000c209. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c209. The temblor was reported at 23:23:36 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 51.2994 East, latitude 28.7704 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Borāzjān, Bandar-e Būshehr (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 50 km ESE of Bushehr, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.2994° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.7704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km ESE of Bushehr, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-27 23:23:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-27 23:47:06 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 284 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 4.785 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us6000c209 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c209 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c209, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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