A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Javanrud in Iran on Friday. Global time and date of event 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 20:17:07 / December 1, 2017 @ 8:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:47:07 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000bk2g. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bk2g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 46.4567° East, 34.4246° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Iraq (c. 29 672 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Īlām, Pāveh. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Kahrīz (c. 766 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kermānshāh (c. 621 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Īlām (c. 140 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kāmyārān (c. 61 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from (c. 57 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (c. 51 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Javānrūd (c. 38 700 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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