Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Rāmshīr in Iran

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Rāmshīr in Iran on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pa0b. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pa0b. The temblor was detected at 08:37:42 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/01/25 / 2025-01-30 08:37:42 / January 30, 2025 @ 8:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 49.2856° East, latitude 30.9468° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ahvaz, Shādegān, Aghajari (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ahvaz (c. 841 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Omīdīyeh (c. 47 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Rāmhormoz (c. 38 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Shādegān (c. 37 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Aghajari (c. 21 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Rāmshīr (c. 19 500 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km WNW of Rāmshīr, Iran. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	49.2856° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.9468° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km WNW of Rāmshīr, Iran	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-30 08:37:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-21 07:08:25	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.97	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us7000pa0b	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pa0b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pa0b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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