A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Azna in Iran. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/09/18 / 2018-09-19 12:41:05 / September 19, 2018 @ 12:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:11:05 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us1000h2sk. Unique identifier: us1000h2sk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.8338 East, latitude 33.5858 North, depth = 10 km.
Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Khorramābād (c. 329 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Borūjerd (c. 252 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Malāyer (c. 176 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Alīgūdarz (c. 91 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nahāvand (c. 76 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Aznā (c. 47 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alīgūdarz, Nahāvand, Malāyer.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
Did you feel it?
How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km WSW of Azna, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply