A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 04:33:18 / October 22, 2019 @ 4:33 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:03:18 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us700061mj. Ids that are associated to the event: us700061mj. Exact location of earthquake, 54.9703° East, 27.1838° North, depth 10 km.
Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh (c. 22 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bandar-e Lengeh. Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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