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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Abhar in Iran


Earthquake location 35.8067S, 48.9098WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Abhar in Iran. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cckl. Unique identifier: us6000cckl. Global time and date of event 24/10/20 / 2020-10-24 11:34:18 / October 24, 2020 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 48.9098° East, 35.8067° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:34:18 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Zanjān (c. 357 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Alvand (c. 74 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tākestān (c. 71 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Abhar (c. 69 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Khorramdarreh (c. 50 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zanjān, Tākestān, Alvand.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SW of Abhar, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.9098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km SW of Abhar, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-24 11:34:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-24 11:54:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 385 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 4.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us6000cckl Id of event.
Event Code 6000cckl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cckl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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