A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, southern Iran kilometers (0 miles) from southern Iran. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003enk. Unique identifier: us70003enk. Exact location of event, longitude 51.6465 East, latitude 29.3843 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 13:33:04 / April 21, 2019 @ 1:33 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:33:04 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter).
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 Būshehr, Shiraz, Nūrābād. Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Shiraz (c. 1 249 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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