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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iran: Earthquake Report for November 27, 2005: West of Qeshm (Persian Gulf)

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Source: International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

At 13:52 (local time) an earthquake with ML=5.6 on the Richter scale occurred 44 km west of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf and 57 km southwest of Bandar Abbas. (Figure 1) The magnitude of this earthquake according to the body wave scale is estimated at Mb=6.2. This seismic event has been recorded at all 14 broad band seismic stations of the Iranian National Broad-Band Seismic Network (INSN) at IIEES (Figure 2). Waveforms of this earthquake can be downloaded from the IIEES website. According to the recorded seismograms, the location of this earthquake is at 26.87=B0 N and 55.83=B0 E. Having been recorded by the Iranian National Broad-Band Seismic Network (INSN) at IIEES, over 400 aftershocks have followed the main earthquake in this region with 36 aftershocks of magnitude greater than 2.5 (Figure 3 and Table 1). The biggest aftershock was of Mb=5.9 which occurred at 8 p.m. the same day. So far this earthquake has had 10 casualties and over 100 injured. The earthquake has destroyed 12 villages including Tonban, Goreyan, Gavarzin, Khaledin, Direstan, Kushe, Karavan, Turyan, Tam sonati, Gereidan, and Ziranag.

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