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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Rāmhormoz in Iran

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz in Iran. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 10:34:00 / August 30, 2025 @ 10:34 am. Id of earthquake: us7000qsjq. Event ids that are associated: us7000qsjq. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:34:00 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 50.114° East, latitude 31.5118° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rāmshīr, Aghajari, Fārsān (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Dehdasht (c. 69 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fārsān (c. 25 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Aghajari (c. 21 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 54 km ENE of Rāmhormoz, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	50.114° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5118° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km ENE of Rāmhormoz, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-30 10:34:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-30 13:13:33	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	312	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	5.094	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	83	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	us7000qsjq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qsjq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qsjq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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