Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake strikes near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (mg/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. The temblor was reported at 13:04:28 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 49.23 km (31 miles). Global time of event 24/02/15 / 2015-02-24 08:04:28 / February 24, 2015 @ 8:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 73.7453 East, latitude 34.2966 North, depth 49.23 km, unique identifier, usc000tsmy.

Close countries, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mānsehra (c. 66 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sopur (c. 63 000 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kahūta, Bandipura, Sumbal.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	73.7453° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km ESE of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-24 08:04:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-24 22:22:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	211	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	usc000tsmy	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tsmy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usc000tsmy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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