A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Javanrud in Iran. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/18 / 2018-08-26 00:53:53 / August 26, 2018 @ 12:53 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:23:53 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ghek. Id of event: us1000ghek. Exact location of event, longitude 46.384 East, latitude 34.6104 North, depth = 10 km.
Close country/countries, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermānshāh, Kahrīz (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 23 km SSW of Javanrud, Iran.
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