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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran


Earthquake location 27.6852S, 55.871WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, 55.871° East, 27.6852° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600041r7. Unique identifier: us600041r7. Global time and date of event 17/06/19 / 2019-06-17 13:32:26 / June 17, 2019 @ 1:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:02:26 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Qeshm, Bandar ‘Abbās. Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbās (c. 352 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Qeshm (c. 25 000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 68 km NW of Bandar ‘Abbas, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 55.871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6852° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NW of Bandar 'Abbas, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-17 13:32:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-17 13:54:43 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 340 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 2.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us600041r7 Id of event.
Event Code 600041r7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600041r7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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