Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Rāmhormoz in Iran

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz in Iran. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 12:07:00 / August 30, 2025 @ 12:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:07:00 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000rck7. Event ids that are associated: us6000rck7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 50.1239° East, latitude 31.4844° North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masjed Soleymān, Aghajari, Omīdīyeh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Dehdasht (c. 69 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Aghajari (c. 21 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen 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 quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km ENE of Rāmhormoz, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	50.1239° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.4844° 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 12:07:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-25 05:59:28	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	271	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.118	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us6000rck7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rck7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rck7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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