A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran on Sunday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:56:22 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jfrj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jfrj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 49.5631 East, latitude 31.671 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 21:26:22 / February 9, 2019 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ahvaz, Rāmshīr, Shūshtar. Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 pop).
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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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