A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Shushtar in Iran. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/17 / 2017-12-14 08:38:38 / December 14, 2017 @ 8:38 am. Unique identifier: us1000bubw. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bubw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.7506 East, latitude 31.799 North, depth = 10 km. 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) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:08:38 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūsh, Sūsangerd, Masjed Soleymān. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sūsangerd (c. 41 400 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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