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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 41 km SSE of Surab, Pakistan


Earthquake location 28.1706S, 66.4735WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Surab in Pakistan. Exact location of event, depth 26.71 km, 66.4735° East, 28.1706° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:36:06 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.71 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 08:36:06 / August 13, 2017 @ 8:36 am. Id of earthquake: us2000a7rx. Event ids that are associated: us2000a7rx.

Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Sūrāb (c. 13 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sūrāb (min 5000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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 SSE of Surab, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.4735° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSE of Surab, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-13 08:36:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-13 09:02:28 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 259 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 6.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us2000a7rx Id of event.
Event Code 2000a7rx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a7rx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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