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


Earthquake location 29.2303S, 51.1637WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Borazjan in Iran. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 51.1637° East, latitude 29.2303° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/18 / 2018-01-22 13:37:10 / January 22, 2018 @ 1:37 pm. Unique identifier: us1000ceal. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ceal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:07:10 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khārk, Bandar-e Ganāveh, Kāzerūn. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Khārk (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SW of Borazjan, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.1637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2303° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Borazjan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-22 13:37:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 20:44:27 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 6.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us1000ceal Id of event.
Event Code 1000ceal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ceal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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