A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Bela in Pakistan. Exact location of event, longitude 66.3263 East, latitude 26.2946 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000crmd. Unique identifier: us2000crmd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/01/18 / 2018-01-31 05:57:30 / January 31, 2018 @ 5:57 am. The temblor was picked up at 10:57:30 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Bela (c. 20 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Uthal (c. 16 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uthal, Bela. Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NNE of Bela, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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