A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Fīrūzābād in Iran. Exact location of event, longitude 52.3992 East, latitude 28.1725 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:28:39 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000pi8c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pi8c. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 19:28:39 / January 6, 2025 @ 7:28 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 76 km (48 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fīrūzābād (min 5000 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 76 km SSW of Fīrūzābād, Iran.
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