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


Earthquake location 37.5633S, 57.0264WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bojnūrd in Iran. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:16:16 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000ncym. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ncym. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/24 / 2024-09-10 22:16:16 / September 10, 2024 @ 10:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 57.0264 East, latitude 37.5633 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Bojnūrd (c. 192 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Esfarāyen (c. 59 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Esfarāyen, Bojnūrd. Country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km WNW of Bojnūrd, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.0264° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5633° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km WNW 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 2024-09-10 22:16:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-04 23:00:48 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us7000ncym Id of event.
Event Code 7000ncym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ncym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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