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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Susangerd in Iran

Posted by admin on December 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.3233S, 48.1834WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Susangerd in Iran on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000iuqg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iuqg. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 48.1834 East, latitude 31.3233 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 19:28:25 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/12/18 / 2018-12-11 15:58:25 / December 11, 2018 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shādegān, Al Hārithah, Ahvaz. Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Al Hārithah (c. 92 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sūsangerd (c. 41 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Shādegān (c. 37 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. 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: 26 km S of Susangerd, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.1834° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km S 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 15:58:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-18 15:41:45 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 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 4.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000iuqg Id of event.
Event Code 2000iuqg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iuqg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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