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Light earthquake 4 mag, 7 km WNW of Malard, Iran


Earthquake location 35.6917S, 50.8996WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Malard in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 21:24:33 / December 26, 2017 @ 9:24 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000bwij. Event ids that are associated: us1000bwij. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 50.8996 East, latitude 35.6917 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:54:33 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Tehrān (c. 7 153 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Karaj (c. 1 448 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Qarchak (c. 251 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from (c. 213 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Varāmīn (c. 179 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sāveh (c. 175 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sāveh, Pīshvā, Sharīfābād.

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

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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: 7 km WNW of Malard, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.8996° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Malard, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-26 21:24:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 22:23:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 39 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 265 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 4.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us1000bwij Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwij An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bwij, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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