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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Zanjan in Iran


Earthquake location 37.1189S, 48.2349WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Zanjan in Iran. Global time and date of event 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 23:13:40 / March 6, 2016 @ 11:13 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10004vs6. Event ids that are associated: us10004vs6. The temblor was picked up at 02:43:40 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 48.2349° East, 37.1189° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Zanjān (c. 357 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Khalkhāl (c. 51 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khalkhāl, Zanjān (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 53 km NNW of Zanjan, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.2349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of Zanjan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 23:13:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-19 22:55:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 234 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 2.68 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10004vs6 Id of event.
Event Code 10004vs6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vs6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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