A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kalat in Pakistan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 66.1668° East, 28.9937° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20006uk7. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006uk7. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 14:46:39 / August 27, 2016 @ 2:46 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:46:39 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khārān, Nushki, Sūrāb. Close country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Khārān (c. 30 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nushki (c. 27 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Kalāt (c. 26 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sūrāb (c. 13 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 41 km W of Kalat, Pakistan.
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