A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kalaleh in Iran. The temblor was reported at 20:40:37 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 17:10:37 / April 26, 2019 @ 5:10 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003cli. Unique identifier: us70003cli. Exact location of event, longitude 55.6564 East, latitude 37.459 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Āzādshahr, Gonbad-e Kāvūs, Āq Qāyeh (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Gonbad-e Kāvūs (c. 131 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Āzādshahr (c. 47 600 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kalāleh (c. 33 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Āq Qāyeh (c. 5 100 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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