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23 August 2017

REVISION: Mw 5.6 IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION 12 km SE Raniyah 23/08/2017 13:42 (UTC)

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THIS MESSAGE IS A REVISION OF A PREVIOUS EMSC ALERT
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EARTHQUAKE on 23/08/2017 at 13:42 (UTC)
IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION 12 km SE Raniyah

MAGNITUDE: Mw 5.6

Data provided by: BEO BUC BUD DDA GFZ GSRC IGUT IMP KAN LDG
LED LJU LVV MAD MSO NEIC NEWS ZAMG

Latitude = 36.16 N
Longitude = 44.95 E
Origin Time = 13:42:54.3 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km (f)
RMS = 1.23 sec
Gap = 34 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 3.9 Km
- Semi minor = 2.8 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 12 degrees

Number of data used = 497

Preliminary location computed on Wed Aug 23 14:16:19 2017 (UTC)
Done by S Godey

Comments :

Message number: 2501

All magnitudes estimations :
mb4.8 (BEO) Mb5.7 (BUC) M 5.2 (BUD) Mw5.2 (DDA)
M 5.3 (GFZ) Mb5.8 (GSRC) ML5.3 (IGUT) MW5.4 (IMP)
Mw5.4 (KAN) MB5.5 (LDG) MB5.5 (LED) Mb5.5 (MAD)
Mb5.4 (MSO) Mw5.6 (NEIC) Mb5.3 (ZAMG)

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