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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Bandar-e Ganaveh in Iran

Posted by admin on March 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.6256S, 50.7424WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Bandar-e Ganaveh in Iran. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 04:30:47 / March 19, 2018 @ 4:30 am. Exact location of event, longitude 50.7424 East, latitude 29.6256 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:00:47 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000d6bf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d6bf. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nūrābād, Kāzerūn, Dogonbadan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Dogonbadan (c. 94 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Khārk (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km ENE of Bandar-e Ganaveh, Iran.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 50.7424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.6256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ENE of Bandar-e Ganaveh, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-19 04:30:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-19 04:52:33 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 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 6.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000d6bf Id of event.
Event Code 1000d6bf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d6bf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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