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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bojnūrd in Iran

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Bojnūrd in Iran. Exact location of earthquake, 57.356° East, 37.6193° North, depth 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:58:45 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000ntkf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ntkf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 23:58:45 / September 21, 2024 @ 11:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from Ashgabat (c. 727 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Bojnūrd (c. 192 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Esfarāyen (c. 59 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Abadan (c. 39 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Baharly (c. 23 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashgabat, Baharly, Abadan.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km N of Bojnūrd, Iran.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	57.356° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6193° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km N of Bojnūrd, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-21 23:58:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-22 00:16:42	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	326	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	0.678	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 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	us6000ntkf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ntkf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ntkf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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