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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Semīrom in Iran


Earthquake location 31.3319S, 51.0135WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Semīrom in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 51.0135 East, latitude 31.3319 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:08:03 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c2ea. Unique identifier: us6000c2ea. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 04:08:03 / September 29, 2020 @ 4:08 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yasuj, Borūjen, Dehdasht. Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Yasuj (c. 96 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Dehdasht (c. 69 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Borūjen (c. 52 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Semīrom (c. 27 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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 has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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: 53 km W of Semīrom, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.0135° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km W of Semīrom, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-29 04:08:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 04:18:41 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 340 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 3.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us6000c2ea Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2ea An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2ea, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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