A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Iranshahr in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 61.1904 East, latitude 26.4917 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:23:35 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hdd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hdd1. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 14:53:35 / October 17, 2018 @ 2:53 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Qaşr-e Qand. Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Qaşr-e Qand (c. 37 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).
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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 93 km SSE of Iranshahr, Iran.
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