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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kūh Sefīd in Iran


Earthquake location 29.1643S, 56.9795WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kūh Sefīd in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.474 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000mywh. Event ids that are associated: us7000mywh. The temblor was detected at 15:02:20 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 15:02:20 / July 12, 2024 @ 3:02 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10.474 km, 56.9795° East, 29.1643° North.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Bardsīr (c. 37 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bardsīr. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SE of Kūh Sefīd, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.9795° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.474 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SE of Kūh Sefīd, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-12 15:02:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-12 15:53:42 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us7000mywh Id of event.
Event Code 7000mywh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mywh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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