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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Harsin in Iran


Earthquake location 34.1556S, 47.3505WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Harsin in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 47.3505° East, 34.1556° North, depth 42.57 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:09:46 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.57 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 11:39:46 / November 13, 2017 @ 11:39 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bsxv. Unique identifier: us2000bsxv.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kūhdasht (c. 100 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 73 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Harsīn (c. 57 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aleshtar, Kāmyārān, Sonqor (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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 25 km WSW of Harsin, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 47.3505° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW of Harsin, 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 11:39:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-28 08:00:36 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us2000bsxv Id of event.
Event Code 2000bsxv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bsxv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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