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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Masjed Soleyman in Iran


Earthquake location 31.7748S, 49.5422WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 49.5422° East, 31.7748° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:30:31 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004ejm. Unique identifier: us70004ejm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 07:00:31 / July 8, 2019 @ 7:00 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Omīdīyeh, Fārsān, Rāmshīr. Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (60 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.5422° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-08 07:00:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 07:24:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.944 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level yellow 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 650 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 2.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us70004ejm Id of event.
Event Code 70004ejm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ejm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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