A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 55.391 East, latitude 26.5727 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 03:05:47 / January 4, 2016 @ 3:05 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004b41. Unique identifier: us10004b41. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:35:47 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar-e Lengeh. Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh (c. 22 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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