A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. The temblor was reported at 20:40:31 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/17 / 2017-11-14 17:10:31 / November 14, 2017 @ 5:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bti1. Unique identifier: us2000bti1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.83 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 49.5437° East, 31.995° North, depth 27.83 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāmhormoz, Shūshtar, Masjed Soleymān (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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