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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Bandar Bushehr in Iran


Earthquake location 28.3587S, 51.6184WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Bandar Bushehr in Iran on Thursday. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:04:47 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 51.6184° East, 28.3587° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 06:34:47 / April 19, 2018 @ 6:34 am. Unique identifier: us1000dngn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dngn.

Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 109 km (67 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Borāzjān, Fīrūzābād, Bandar-e Būshehr. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 101 km SE of Bandar Bushehr, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.6184° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.3587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SE of Bandar Bushehr, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-19 06:34:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-19 07:05:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.81 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 653 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 5.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us1000dngn Id of event.
Event Code 1000dngn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dngn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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