A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Mohr in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 53.2438 East, latitude 27.7565 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000aftj. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000aftj. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 08:05:42 / June 21, 2020 @ 8:05 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:05:42 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gerāsh (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km ENE of Mohr, Iran.
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