A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kazerun in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/18 / 2018-09-29 11:03:15 / September 29, 2018 @ 11:03 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 51.4102° East, 29.6529° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h480. Unique identifier: us1000h480. The temblor was picked up at 14:33:15 / 2:33 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar-e Ganāveh, Nūrābād, Borāzjān. Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop).
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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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