A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Borazjan in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006rec. Unique identifier: us70006rec. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/19 / 2019-12-27 01:53:16 / December 27, 2019 @ 1:53 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:23:16 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 51.3613 East, latitude 28.885 North, depth = 38.28 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.28 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kāzerūn, Bandar-e Būshehr, Borāzjān. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve 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 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: 44 km SSE of Borazjan, Iran.
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