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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran


Earthquake location 34.4378S, 45.8231WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000bmhq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bmhq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 04:27:56 / November 13, 2017 @ 4:27 am. Exact location of event, longitude 45.8231 East, latitude 34.4378 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:57:56 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Al Miqdādīyah, Kifrī, . Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Pāveh (c. 17 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km SW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.8231° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-13 04:27:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-13 05:04:01 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 369 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 4.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us2000bmhq Id of event.
Event Code 2000bmhq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bmhq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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