A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Kazerun in Iran. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/17 / 2017-01-17 10:41:14 / January 17, 2017 @ 10:41 am. The temblor was detected at 14:11:14 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007tpm. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007tpm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 51.497 East, latitude 29.6 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Shiraz (c. 1 249 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shiraz, Bandar-e Būshehr, Bandar-e Ganāveh (min 5000 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 six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 15 km W of Kazerun, Iran.
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