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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Semnan in Iran


Earthquake location 35.4863S, 53.3448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Semnan in Iran. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us700061lf. Ids that are associated to the event: us700061lf. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/19 / 2019-10-31 14:58:39 / October 31, 2019 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 53.3448° East, 35.4863° North. The temblor was reported at 18:28:39 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mahdishahr, Semnān (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Semnān (c. 124 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Mahdishahr (c. 21 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSW of Semnan, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.3448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Semnan, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-31 14:58:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-18 17:10:10 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 6.245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us700061lf Id of event.
Event Code 700061lf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700061lf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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