Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Kerman in Iran

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kerman in Iran. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 02:32:46 / December 1, 2017 @ 2:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bjnz. Id of event: us1000bjnz. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 57.3306° East, 30.7652° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:02:46 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bardsīr, Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Rāvar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Bardsīr (c. 37 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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: 58 km NNE of Kerman, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	57.3306° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.7652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km 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 02:32:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-01 02:59:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	210	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	7.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.21	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	558	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	5.498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000bjnz	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bjnz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bjnz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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