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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Mīnāb in Iran


Earthquake location 26.9915S, 57.9056WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Mīnāb in Iran on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:29:07 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.9056° East, 26.9915° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/21 / 2021-01-02 20:29:07 / January 2, 2021 @ 8:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000d532. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000d532.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mīnāb. Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Mīnāb (c. 70 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 82 km E of Mīnāb, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.9056° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.9915° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km E of Mīnāb, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-02 20:29:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-02 22:52:30 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 271 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 8.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000d532 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d532 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d532, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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