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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Batgram in Pakistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Batgram in Pakistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10006jl2. Event ids that are associated: us10006jl2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.937 East, latitude 34.6529 North, depth = 28.25 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.25 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 08:19:52 / September 2, 2016 @ 8:19 am. The temblor was reported at 13:19:52 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mardan (c. 300 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mingora (c. 279 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Swābi (c. 97 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mānsehra (c. 66 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Harīpur (c. 57 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mardan, Murree, Hazro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

Each 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km WSW of Batgram, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.937° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6529° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WSW of Batgram, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-02 08:19:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-02 08:37:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	312	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	1.037	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us10006jl2	Id of event.
Event Code	10006jl2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006jl2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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