A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Susangerd in Iran on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 48.1379° East, 31.3678° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/12/18 / 2018-12-11 08:35:27 / December 11, 2018 @ 8:35 am. The temblor was picked up at 12:05:27 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000isg6. Unique identifier: us2000isg6.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shūsh, Al Hārithah, Ahvaz. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Al Hārithah (c. 92 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shūsh (c. 52 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Sūsangerd (c. 41 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km SSW of Susangerd, Iran.
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