iran.quakes: 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.
Format
An object of class "data.frame" containing the following columns:
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date
Occurrence date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd"
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time
Occurrence time (UTC) in the format "hh:mm:ss"
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long
Latitude of epicenter in decimal degrees
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lat
Latitude of epicenter in decimal degrees
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mag
Magnitude in body-wave magnitude scale (mb)
References
Jalilian, A. (2016). Modeling Earthquakes of Iran.