A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Qila Abdullah in Pakistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 22:58:19 / August 17, 2016 @ 10:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006eks. Unique identifier: us10006eks. Exact location of earthquake, 66.435° East, 30.5023° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:58:19 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mastung, Quetta, Kot Malik (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Chaman (c. 88 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Pishin (c. 24 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km SW of Qila Abdullah, Pakistan.
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