Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran. The temblor was detected at 01:28:21 / 1:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.3938° East, 34.3085° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwh9. Unique identifier: us1000hwh9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 22:28:21 / November 25, 2018 @ 10:28 pm.

Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mandalī, Kifrī, Al Miqdādīyah (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Al Miqdādīyah (c. 50 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kifrī (c. 30 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 46 km WSW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran.

Al Miqdādīyah Iran Iraq Kifrī Mandali Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	45.3938° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3085° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km WSW of Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-25 22:28:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-25 22:45:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	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	259	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	0.85	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	222	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	us1000hwh9	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hwh9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hwh9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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