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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 33 km SW of Qila Abdullah, Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.5023S, 66.435WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.5023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SW of Qila Abdullah, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-17 22:58:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 23:33:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 298 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 5.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us10006eks Id of event.
Event Code 10006eks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006eks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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