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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Bandar-e Ganaveh in Iran


Earthquake location 29.4246S, 50.7833WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bandar-e Ganaveh in Iran. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 00:38:11 / January 2, 2017 @ 12:38 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:08:11 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007p5g. Unique identifier: us10007p5g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 50.7833° East, latitude 29.4246° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Khārk (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kāzerūn, Bandar-e Būshehr, Khārk (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 30 km ESE of Bandar-e Ganaveh, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.7833° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km ESE of Bandar-e Ganaveh, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-02 00:38:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-02 00:59:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 246 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 6.572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10007p5g Id of event.
Event Code 10007p5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007p5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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