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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 23 km ENE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran


Earthquake location 31.995S, 49.5437WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. The temblor was reported at 20:40:31 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/17 / 2017-11-14 17:10:31 / November 14, 2017 @ 5:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bti1. Unique identifier: us2000bti1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.83 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 49.5437° East, 31.995° North, depth 27.83 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāmhormoz, Shūshtar, Masjed Soleymān (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 three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.5437° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-14 17:10:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-13 17:32:41 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 259 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 4.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us2000bti1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bti1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bti1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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