A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbas in Iran. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 56.6278° East, latitude 27.9525° North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700058wf. Unique identifier: us700058wf. The temblor was picked up at 23:35:30 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/19 / 2019-08-27 20:05:30 / August 27, 2019 @ 8:05 pm.
Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Bandar ‘Abbās (c. 352 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar ‘Abbās (min 5000 pop).
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 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 91 km NNE of Bandar ‘Abbas, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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