Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:09:56 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/03/25 / 2025-03-11 21:09:56 / March 11, 2025 @ 9:09 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000pld7. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pld7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.831 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 50.0258° East, latitude 27.2468° North, depth = 16.831 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sayhāt, Al Qaţīf, At Tūbī. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Saudi Arabia (c. 25 732 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Al Jubayl (c. 237 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Al Qaţīf (c. 98 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tārūt (c. 85 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sayhāt (c. 66 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Şafwá (c. 45 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from (c. 41 200 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 47 km ENE of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia.

Al Jubayl Al Qaţīf At Tūbī Şafwá Saudi Arabia Sayhāt Tārūt

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	50.0258° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.2468° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.831 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km ENE of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-11 21:09:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 23:12:42	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	246	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.52	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us7000pld7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pld7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pld7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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