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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Gerāsh in Iran

Posted by admin on May 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.2473S, 53.6136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Gerāsh in Iran. Event id: us7000mp1h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mp1h. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 53.6136° East, 27.2473° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/24 / 2024-05-23 17:10:31 / May 23, 2024 @ 5:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:10:31 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kīsh, Gerāsh (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kīsh (c. 20 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km SW of Gerāsh, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.6136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.2473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km SW of Gerāsh, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-23 17:10:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-31 19:05:09 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us7000mp1h Id of event.
Event Code 7000mp1h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mp1h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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