A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003iqi. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003iqi. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 56.4678° East, 27.4719° North. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:11:35 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 02:41:35 / September 11, 2015 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mīnāb, Qeshm, Bandar ‘Abbās. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbās (c. 352 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mīnāb (c. 70 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Qeshm (c. 25 000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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