Earthquake Report – December 28, 2005 – Southeast of Hajiabad, Hormozghan

 

At 1:23 (local time) an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred 26 south east of Hajiabad in Hormozghan province (Figure 1). This seismic event has been recorded at 12 broad band seismic stations of the Iranian National Broad-Band Seismic Network (INSN) at IIEES (Figure 2). The wave forms of this earthquake may be seen in the IIEES website. According to the recorded seismograms, this event is located at 28.12 ˚N and 56.07 ˚E.

Figure (1): Epicenter of Earthquake- Southeast of Hajiabad – December 28, 2005

 

Figure (2): Recorded Seismograms of Earthquake- Southeast of Hajiabad (IIEES National Broad Bank Seismic Network)

Figure (3): Seismicity of 150 km range surrounding the earthquake epicenter

Figure (4): Earthquakes with magnitude greater than 5, 150 km range surrounding earthquake epicenter

 

Table (1): List of earthquakes with magnitude greater than 6

 

Table (2): Historical earthquakes of the region

Y	M	D	H	Lon.	Lat.	M
1360				55.9	26.8
1361				56.2	26.9	5.3
1497				56.3	27.2	6.5
1622	10	4	12	56.4	27.1
1884	5	19	24	56	26.9
1897	1	10	21	56	26.9	6.4