Rupture History of the 13th November 2017 M_w 7.3 Iran-Iraq Border Region Earthquake Based on Teleseismic Data

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The information of the mainshock, aftershocks, and historical earthquakes. (a) Location of 2017 Iran-Iraq border region main shock and the centroid moment tensor solution (CMT), ten days aftershocks and historical earthquakes since 1924. The red star is the epicenter of the main shock. The black and pink circles are ten days aftershocks larger than 4.0. The brown, yellow, and red circles are historical earthquakes greater than 5.0. The CMT solution of some historical earthquake larger than 6.5 is shown in this figure. (b) The relationship between magnitude and depth for historical earthquake. The red circle is the 2017 Iran-Iraq border region earthquake. The information of these earthquakes is from USGS. The red line is the plate boundary [5, 6].