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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Topi in Pakistan

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Topi in Pakistan. Id of earthquake: us70005rvq. Event ids that are associated: us70005rvq. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:44:40 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 07:44:40 / October 8, 2019 @ 7:44 am. Exact location, longitude 72.5671° East, latitude 33.9922° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Rawalpindi (c. 1 743 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Islamabad (c. 601 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mardan (c. 300 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Swābi (c. 97 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Nowshera Cantonment (c. 96 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bat Khela, Pindi Gheb, Kahūta (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 10 km SSW of Topi, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.5671° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSW of Topi, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-08 07:44:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-08 21:05:40	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	2	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	234	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	0.676	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us70005rvq	Id of event.
Event Code	70005rvq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005rvq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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