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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kazerun in Iran


Earthquake location 29.7223S, 51.3318WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kazerun in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 51.3318 East, latitude 29.7223 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/18 / 2018-08-30 00:44:59 / August 30, 2018 @ 12:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000h55y. Id of event: us2000h55y. The temblor was picked up at 04:14:59 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Dogonbadan (c. 94 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dogonbadan, Bandar-e Ganāveh, Borāzjān (min 5000 pop). Close 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 33 km WNW of Kazerun, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.3318° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.7223° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km WNW of Kazerun, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-30 00:44:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-30 00:57:44 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 284 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 6.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us2000h55y Id of event.
Event Code 2000h55y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h55y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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