A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/19 / 2019-04-20 02:41:06 / April 20, 2019 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 55.8155 East, latitude 27.2528 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:11:06 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us700039hi. Unique identifier: us700039hi.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Qeshm, Bandar ‘Abbās (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbās (c. 352 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Qeshm (c. 25 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km W of Bandar ‘Abbas, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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