A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Javanrud in Iran. The temblor was picked up at 05:17:47 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 01:47:47 / July 25, 2018 @ 1:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 46.3182° East, latitude 34.6214° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gd79. Id of event: us2000gd79.
Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermānshāh, Kahrīz, (min 5000 pop).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SW of Javanrud, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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