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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tangwani in Pakistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Tangwani in Pakistan on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.07 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:12:48 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 21:12:48 / February 25, 2019 @ 9:12 pm. Exact location, longitude 69.1086° East, latitude 28.5005° North, depth = 17.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000jn2d. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jn2d.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rohri, Sukkur, Bāgarji. Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Sukkur (c. 417 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Jacobābād (c. 170 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shikārpur (c. 156 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Kandhkot (c. 88 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Pāno Āqil (c. 72 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ghotki (c. 64 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km NNE of Tangwani, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.1086° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.5005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNE of Tangwani, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-25 21:12:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-25 22:05:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	272	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	6.022	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	us2000jn2d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jn2d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jn2d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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