A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Borazjan in Iran on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 51.2843° East, 28.8872° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 06:31:47 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006ylm. Unique identifier: us70006ylm. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 03:01:47 / January 12, 2020 @ 3:01 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kāzerūn, Bandar-e Būshehr, Borāzjān. Event epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km S of Borazjan, Iran.
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