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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Masjed Soleyman in Iran


Earthquake location 31.9701S, 49.7927WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:57 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 00:45:57 / June 12, 2019 @ 12:45 am. Exact location, longitude 49.7927° East, latitude 31.9701° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70003ydd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003ydd.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūshtar, Fārsān, Rāmhormoz (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 46 km E of Masjed Soleyman, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.7927° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km E of Masjed Soleyman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-12 00:45:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 01:21:24 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 4.627 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 78 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 us70003ydd Id of event.
Event Code 70003ydd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ydd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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