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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 21 km SSW of Susangerd, Iran


Earthquake location 31.3678S, 48.1379WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Susangerd in Iran on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 48.1379° East, 31.3678° North. 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: 11/12/18 / 2018-12-11 08:35:27 / December 11, 2018 @ 8:35 am. The temblor was picked up at 12:05:27 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000isg6. Unique identifier: us2000isg6.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūsh, Al Hārithah, Ahvaz. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Al Hārithah (c. 92 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Sūsangerd (c. 41 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. 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: 21 km SSW of Susangerd, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.1379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSW of Susangerd, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-11 08:35:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-11 09:01:00 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 4.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us2000isg6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000isg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000isg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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