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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kot Malik in Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.2244S, 66.495WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kot Malik in Pakistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f3fl. Id of event: us1000f3fl. Exact location, longitude 66.495° East, latitude 30.2244° North, depth = 25.58 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.58 km (16 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:53:37 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 16:53:37 / June 27, 2018 @ 4:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Chaman (c. 88 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nushki (c. 27 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pishin (c. 24 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mach, Nushki, Chaman.

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 has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 48 km W of Kot Malik, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.495° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.2244° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km W of Kot Malik, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 16:53:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-02 04:07:20 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 4.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us1000f3fl Id of event.
Event Code 1000f3fl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f3fl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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