A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Husavik in Iceland. Exact location of event, longitude -17.5375 West, latitude 66.3642 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:32:26 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4l6. Unique identifier: us2000d4l6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 06:32:26 / February 19, 2018 @ 6:32 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Akureyri (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Akureyri (c. 17 700 pop). Close country/countries, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km NNW of Husavik, Iceland. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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