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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Iranshahr in Iran


Earthquake location 26.4917S, 61.1904WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Iranshahr in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 61.1904 East, latitude 26.4917 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:23:35 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hdd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hdd1. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 14:53:35 / October 17, 2018 @ 2:53 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Qaşr-e Qand. Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Qaşr-e Qand (c. 37 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 93 km SSE of Iranshahr, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 61.1904° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.4917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SSE of Iranshahr, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-17 14:53:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-18 07:16:08 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 271 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 4.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us1000hdd1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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