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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Jhelum in Pakistan


Earthquake location 32.9556S, 73.56WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Jhelum in Pakistan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.56 East, latitude 32.9556 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 22:41:19 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70005twq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005twq. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/10/19 / 2019-10-13 17:41:19 / October 13, 2019 @ 5:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Kotli (c. 640 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bhimbar (c. 342 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Gujrāt (c. 301 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Jhelum (c. 164 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mandi Bahāuddīn (c. 129 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dhaunkal, Bhera, Sodhra. Close country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km W of Jhelum, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.56° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Jhelum, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-13 17:41:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-14 22:06:41 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 168 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 0.734 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70005twq Id of event.
Event Code 70005twq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005twq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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