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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 29 km ESE of Bandar-e Ganaveh, Iran


Earthquake location 29.4638S, 50.7926WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bandar-e Ganaveh in Iran. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 50.7926° East, 29.4638° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us10007pw3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pw3. Global time and date of event 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 14:43:33 / December 18, 2016 @ 2:43 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:13:33 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Khārk (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kāzerūn, Bandar-e Būshehr, Khārk.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.7926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km 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 2016-12-18 14:43:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-15 20:27:49 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 326 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 6.592 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 105 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 us10007pw3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007pw3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pw3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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