A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Masjed Soleyman in Iran. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 49.5422° East, 31.7748° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:30:31 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004ejm. Unique identifier: us70004ejm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 07:00:31 / July 8, 2019 @ 7:00 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Omīdīyeh, Fārsān, Rāmshīr. Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (60 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SE of Masjed Soleyman, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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