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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 61 km NNE of Kerman, Iran


Earthquake location 30.8249S, 57.2268WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Kerman in Iran on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/17 / 2017-12-27 18:01:15 / December 27, 2017 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:31:15 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 57.2268° East, latitude 30.8249° North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bws4. Unique identifier: us1000bws4.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shahrak-e Pābedānā, Zarand, Rāvar. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Kermān (c. 577 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Zarand (c. 59 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rāvar (c. 40 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Shahrak-e Pābedānā (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km NNE of Kerman, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.2268° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2017-12-27 18:01:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-27 18:24:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 386 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 5.525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000bws4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bws4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bws4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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