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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Masjed Soleyman in Iran


Earthquake location 31.7965S, 49.4485WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:56:19 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 07:26:19 / July 8, 2019 @ 7:26 am. Exact location of event, longitude 49.4485 East, latitude 31.7965 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70004ekb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004ekb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ahvaz, Shūshtar, Rāmhormoz (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 20 km SE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.4485° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SE 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 2019-07-08 07:26:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 06:07:23 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 1.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 us70004ekb Id of event.
Event Code 70004ekb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ekb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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