Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Firuzabad in Iran

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Firuzabad in Iran. Exact location of event, depth 31.89 km, 51.9546° East, 28.9749° North. The temblor was picked up at 22:53:17 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100043er. Event ids that are associated: us100043er. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.89 km (20 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 19:23:17 / December 4, 2015 @ 7:23 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiraz, Akbarābād, Borāzjān (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Shiraz (c. 1 249 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Akbarābād (c. 98 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km WNW of Firuzabad, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	51.9546° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.9749° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km WNW of Firuzabad, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-04 19:23:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-04 19:59:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	210	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	385	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	5.521	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	37	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	us100043er	Id of event.
Event Code	100043er	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100043er,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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