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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Miram Shah in Pakistan


Earthquake location 32.9846S, 69.9043WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Miram Shah in Pakistan. Exact location, longitude 69.9043° East, latitude 32.9846° North, depth = 46.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.5 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/15 / 2015-12-28 03:30:31 / December 28, 2015 @ 3:30 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004a0z. Id of event: us10004a0z. The temblor was detected at 08:30:31 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Doāba, Sarāi Naurang, Bannu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Khōst (c. 96 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bannu (c. 49 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sarāi Naurang (c. 19 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Doāba (c. 8 900 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km W of Miram Shah, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.9043° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9846° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Miram Shah, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-28 03:30:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-28 04:08:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us10004a0z Id of event.
Event Code 10004a0z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a0z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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