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Light earthquake 4 mag, 39 km NNW of Bela, Pakistan


Earthquake location 26.5737S, 66.2263WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Bela in Pakistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 66.2263 East, latitude 26.5737 North, depth = 21.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/07/17 / 2017-07-23 11:07:08 / July 23, 2017 @ 11:07 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000a1sy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a1sy. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:07:08 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.7 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Bela (c. 20 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bela (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km NNW of Bela, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.2263° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.5737° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNW 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 2017-07-23 11:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-04 06:51:16 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 246 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 9.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 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 us2000a1sy Id of event.
Event Code 2000a1sy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a1sy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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