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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Ramhormoz in Iran


Earthquake location 31.5638S, 49.5208WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ramhormoz in Iran. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007es9. Unique identifier: us60007es9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 02:50:38 / January 12, 2020 @ 2:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, 49.5208° East, 31.5638° North, depth 35 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:20:38 / 6:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Masjed Soleymān (c. 111 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Shūshtar (c. 77 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Omīdīyeh, Ahvaz, Shūshtar (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km NNW of Ramhormoz, Iran. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.5208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.5638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NNW of Ramhormoz, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 02:50:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-24 19:23:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us60007es9 Id of event.
Event Code 60007es9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007es9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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