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11 January 2018

ALERT: mb 5.5 IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION 13 km NW Tursaq 11/01/2018 06:59 (UTC)

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EARTHQUAKE on 11/01/2018 at 06:59 (UTC)
IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION 13 km NW Tursaq

MAGNITUDE: mb 5.5

Data provided by: BEO BUC BUD DDA GFZ GSRC KAN LJU MAD ZAMG

Latitude = 33.55 N
Longitude = 45.74 E
Origin Time = 06:59:29.6 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km (f)
RMS = 1.48 sec
Gap = 112 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 7.4 Km
- Semi minor = 6.1 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 158 degrees

Number of data used = 350

Preliminary location computed on Thu Jan 11 07:13:05 2018 (UTC)
Done by Johann Bailleul

Comments :

Message number: 2564

All magnitudes estimations :
mb4.8 (BEO) Mb5.5 (BUC) M 5.4 (BUD) M 5.8 (DDA)
M 5.5 (GFZ) Mb5.7 (GSRC) Mw5.4 (KAN) Mb5.6 (MAD)

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