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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia


Earthquake location 27.3162S, 49.9956WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:50:04 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/04/25 / 2025-04-22 16:50:04 / April 22, 2025 @ 4:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pua1. Id of event: us7000pua1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 49.9956° East, 27.3162° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sayhāt, Al Qaţīf, At Tūbī (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Saudi Arabia (c. 25 732 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Al Jubayl (c. 237 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Al Qaţīf (c. 98 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Tārūt (c. 85 400 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Sayhāt (c. 66 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Şafwá (c. 45 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from (c. 41 200 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 49 km NE of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.9956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.3162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km NE 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 2025-04-22 16:50:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-22 21:41:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.546 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us7000pua1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pua1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pua1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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