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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran


Earthquake location 27.4706S, 56.3637WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007bck. Id of event: us60007bck. The earthquake was roughly 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 14:49:36 / January 20, 2020 @ 2:49 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:36 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 56.3637° East, latitude 27.4706° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbās (c. 352 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mīnāb (c. 70 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Qeshm (c. 25 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mīnāb, Qeshm, Bandar ‘Abbās (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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: 32 km NNE of Bandar ‘Abbas, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.3637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NNE 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 2020-01-20 14:49:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 23:01:16 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 298 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 2.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us60007bck Id of event.
Event Code 60007bck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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