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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Torbat-e Jām in Iran


Earthquake location 35.9177S, 60.3935WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Torbat-e Jām in Iran. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 60.3935° East, latitude 35.9177° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:44:24 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000d21q. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d21q. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 07:44:24 / January 12, 2021 @ 7:44 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mashhad, Torbat-e Jām. Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Mashhad (c. 2 307 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Torbat-e Jām (c. 58 900 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km NNW of Torbat-e Jām, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 60.3935° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9177° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km NNW of Torbat-e Jām, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-12 07:44:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-10 10:00:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000d21q Id of event.
Event Code 7000d21q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d21q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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