A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Borujerd in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 48.5494 East, latitude 33.8889 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hdxq. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hdxq. Global time and date of event 18/10/18 / 2018-10-18 15:14:47 / October 18, 2018 @ 3:14 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:44:47 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Khorramābād (c. 329 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Borūjerd (c. 252 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Malāyer (c. 176 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kūhdasht (c. 100 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nahāvand (c. 76 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 73 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kangāvar (c. 53 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kūhdasht, Kangāvar, Nūrābād (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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