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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 47 km N of Bela, Pakistan


Earthquake location 26.6493S, 66.2529WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Bela in Pakistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007u9i. Id of event: us10007u9i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 66.2529 East, latitude 26.6493 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 03:47:42 / January 20, 2017 @ 3:47 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:47:42 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bela (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Bela (c. 20 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 47 km N of Bela, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.2529° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.6493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km N of Bela, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-20 03:47:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-20 04:14:26 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 8.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us10007u9i Id of event.
Event Code 10007u9i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u9i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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