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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Lar in Iran


Earthquake location 27.5228S, 54.3708WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Lar in Iran on Monday. The temblor was detected at 18:57:36 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 54.3708 East, latitude 27.5228 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 15:27:36 / February 26, 2018 @ 3:27 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000dd5v. Unique identifier: us2000dd5v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 18 km S of Lar, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.3708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.5228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S of Lar, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-26 15:27:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-11 14:09:27 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 298 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 3.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000dd5v Id of event.
Event Code 2000dd5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dd5v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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