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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Dezful in Iran


Earthquake location 32.5662S, 48.6042WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Dezful in Iran. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 48.6042° East, 32.5662° North. The temblor was detected at 15:18:56 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006x24. Unique identifier: us70006x24. Global time and date of event 22/12/19 / 2019-12-22 11:48:56 / December 22, 2019 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūshtar, Shūsh. Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km NE of Dezful, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.6042° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NE of Dezful, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-22 11:48:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 09:11:56 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 1.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us70006x24 Id of event.
Event Code 70006x24 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006x24, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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