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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Mehr?n in Iran


Earthquake location 33.4277S, 46.115WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Mehr?n in Iran. Unique identifier: us6000a5lf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a5lf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:27:30 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 46.115° East, 33.4277° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/06/20 / 2020-06-04 01:27:30 / June 4, 2020 @ 1:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mandalī, Īlām, Mehrān (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mandalī (c. 29 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mehrān (c. 11 800 pop). Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), 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 three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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.

Questions or comments?

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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km N of Mehr?n, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.115° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km N of Mehr?n, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-04 01:27:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-04 22:05:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 1.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us6000a5lf Id of event.
Event Code 6000a5lf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a5lf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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