A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh in Iran. Id of earthquake: us6000pxnm. Event ids that are associated: us6000pxnm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 55.0404 East, latitude 27.361 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:42:33 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/03/25 / 2025-03-08 18:42:33 / March 8, 2025 @ 6:42 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gerāsh, Bandar-e Lengeh. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Gerāsh (c. 25 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bandar-e Lengeh (c. 22 800 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 90 km N of Bandar-e Lengeh, Iran.
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