A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Farsan in Iran on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 18:46:24 / July 6, 2016 @ 6:46 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 50.4844° East, 31.8494° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100061el. Id of event: us100061el. The temblor was detected at 23:16:24 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Borūjen, Farrokh Shahr, Shahrekord (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Shahrekord (c. 129 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Borūjen (c. 52 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Farrokh Shahr (c. 32 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km S of Farsan, Iran.
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