An Iranian Earthquake Catalog

Description

A data frame with 5970 rows and 5 columns giving occurrence date, time, longitude, latitude and magnitude of shallow earthquakes (depth < 100 km) occurred since 1973-01-01 till 2016-01-01 in Iran and its vicinity (40-65E and 22-42N). Only earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to 4.5 are included.

Usage

data(iran.quakes)

Format

An object of class "data.frame" containing the following columns:

• date Occurrence date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd"

• time Occurrence time (UTC) in the format "hh:mm:ss"

• long Latitude of epicenter in decimal degrees

• lat Latitude of epicenter in decimal degrees

• mag Magnitude in body-wave magnitude scale (mb)

Source

The ANSS Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat): http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/

References

Jalilian, A. (2016). Modeling Earthquakes of Iran.

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