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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Mar?v?n in Iran


Earthquake location 35.3094S, 46.2316WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mar?v?n in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 46.2316 East, latitude 35.3094 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:14:32 / 1:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/20 / 2020-06-26 01:14:32 / June 26, 2020 @ 1:14 am. Unique identifier: us7000agq2. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000agq2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kāmyārān, Bāneh, As Sulaymānīyah (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from As Sulaymānīyah (c. 723 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sanandaj (c. 349 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bāneh (c. 104 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop).

Every 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. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 23 km S of Mar?v?n, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.2316° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km S of Mar?v?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 2020-06-26 01:14:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-02 21:10:15 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 259 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 0.46 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us7000agq2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000agq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000agq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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