Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kerman in Iran

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kerman in Iran. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 21:46:41 / December 12, 2017 @ 9:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000bt5k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bt5k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:16:41 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.2894° East, 30.796° North.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Rāvar, Zarand (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop).

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 eleven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 60 km NNE of Kerman, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	57.2894° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.796° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km NNE of Kerman, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-12 21:46:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-26 00:05:29	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	354	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	5.504	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us1000bt5k	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bt5k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bt5k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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