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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Fīrūzābād in Iran

Posted by admin on January 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.1973S, 52.2728WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Fīrūzābād in Iran. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 17:24:06 / January 6, 2025 @ 5:24 pm. Unique identifier: us6000pi7n. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pi7n. The temblor was reported at 17:24:06 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 52.2728 East, latitude 28.1973 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fīrūzābād (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km SSW of Fīrūzābād, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 52.2728° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km SSW of Fīrūzābād, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-06 17:24:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-06 17:54:52 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 354 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.783 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us6000pi7n Id of event.
Event Code 6000pi7n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pi7n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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