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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kerman in Iran

Posted by admin on December 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.7078S, 57.3616WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Kerman in Iran on Friday. 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: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 02:43:27 / December 1, 2017 @ 2:43 am. Event id: us1000bjp3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bjp3. The temblor was reported at 06:13:27 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 57.3616 East, latitude 30.7078 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Rāvar, Zarand (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

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

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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: 54 km NNE of Kerman, 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 57.3616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 02:43:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-01 03:00:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 5.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000bjp3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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