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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kerman in Iran


Earthquake location 30.7245S, 57.3728WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kerman in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, 57.3728° East, 30.7245° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 03:35:02 / December 1, 2017 @ 3:35 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjq8. Unique identifier: us1000bjq8. The temblor was detected at 07:05:02 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Rāvar, Zarand (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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: 56 km NNE of Kerman, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.3728° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NNE of Kerman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-01 03:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-01 03:54:33 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 400 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 5.499 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000bjq8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjq8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjq8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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