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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 23 km SSE of Masjed Soleymān, Iran

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Masjed Soleymān in Iran on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 22:54:47 / August 9, 2024 @ 10:54 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 49.3794 East, latitude 31.7322 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000nj8f. Event ids that are associated: us6000nj8f. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:54:47 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāmshīr, Ahvaz, Shūshtar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 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 four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 23 km SSE of Masjed Soleymān, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	49.3794° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km SSE of Masjed Soleymān, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-09 22:54:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-09 23:12:31	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.473	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	138	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	us6000nj8f	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nj8f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nj8f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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