A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Khuzdar in Pakistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/03/16 / 2016-03-21 14:55:09 / March 21, 2016 @ 2:55 pm. Unique identifier: us20005c8l. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005c8l. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 66.1492° East, 27.7904° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:55:09 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sūrāb. Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Sūrāb (c. 13 100 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 49 km W of Khuzdar, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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