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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Mohr in Iran


Earthquake location 27.792S, 53.382WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Mohr in Iran. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 18:06:01 / June 14, 2020 @ 6:06 pm. Unique identifier: us6000abr2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000abr2. The temblor was detected at 18:06:01 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 53.382° East, 27.792° North, depth 10.85 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.85 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gerāsh (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km ENE of Mohr, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.792° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km ENE of Mohr, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-14 18:06:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-14 18:22:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 400 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 3.8 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us6000abr2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000abr2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000abr2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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