Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Borāzjān in Iran

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Borāzjān in Iran. Id of earthquake: us7000rflm. Event ids that are associated: us7000rflm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:54:17 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 23:54:17 / November 17, 2025 @ 11:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 51.3579° East, 29.4797° North, depth 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bandar-e Būshehr (c. 165 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bandar-e Ganāveh (c. 52 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bandar-e Ganāveh, Bandar-e Būshehr, Nūrābād (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 26 km NNE of Borāzjān, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	51.3579° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.4797° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km NNE of Borāzjān, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-17 23:54:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-05 03:39:26	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	259	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.245	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us7000rflm	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rflm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rflm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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