A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Kalat in Pakistan. Event id: us2000bjyb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bjyb. Global time and date of event 07/11/17 / 2017-11-07 18:58:50 / November 7, 2017 @ 6:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 66.4727 East, latitude 29.4128 North, depth = 17.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:58:50 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.4 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quetta, Kot Malik, Mach (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Nushki (c. 27 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kalāt (c. 26 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mach (c. 16 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.
How would you describe the shaking?
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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NNW of Kalat, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply