A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:24:21 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 23:24:21 / January 15, 2021 @ 11:24 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d0ik. Unique identifier: us7000d0ik. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 55.1738° East, 26.7936° North.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar-e Lengeh. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh (c. 22 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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