A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Fīrūzābād in Iran. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 12:52:02 / January 9, 2025 @ 12:52 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000pivi. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pivi. The temblor was reported at 12:52:02 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 52.353 East, latitude 28.1373 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fīrūzābād (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Fīrūzābād (c. 66 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-four 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 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: 81 km SSW of Fīrūzābād, Iran.
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