A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Minab in Iran. Exact location, longitude 57.8016° East, latitude 27.0745° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 01:51:18 / November 15, 2019 @ 1:51 am. The temblor was detected at 05:21:18 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006bl7. Id of event: us70006bl7.
The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Mīnāb (c. 70 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mīnāb (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km E of Minab, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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