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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Dir in Pakistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Dir in Pakistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/02/20 / 2020-02-28 05:50:18 / February 28, 2020 @ 5:50 am. Exact location of event, depth 57.34 km, 71.8553° East, 35.2896° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.34 km (36 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:50:18 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us600085v8. Event ids that are associated: us600085v8.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Asadābād, Bat Khela (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Mingora (c. 279 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bat Khela (c. 46 100 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Dīr (c. 29 900 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Tāl (c. 29 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop).

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 has occurred 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. 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: 9 km N of Dir, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.8553° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2896° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km N of Dir, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-28 05:50:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-28 06:09:10	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	312	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	2.009	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us600085v8	Id of event.
Event Code	600085v8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600085v8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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