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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 122 km SSW of Firuzabad, Iran


Earthquake location 27.8961S, 51.9316WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 122 km SSW of Firuzabad, Iran (76 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:56:47 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.06 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000bmal. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bmal. Exact location, longitude 51.9316° East, latitude 27.8961° North, depth = 41.06 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/17 / 2017-12-05 07:26:47 / December 5, 2017 @ 7:26 am.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 122 km SSW of Firuzabad, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.9316° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km SSW of Firuzabad, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-05 07:26:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-05 07:39:26 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 4.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us1000bmal Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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