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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Dadhar in Pakistan


Earthquake location 29.3646S, 67.6973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Dadhar in Pakistan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 67.6973° East, latitude 29.3646° North, depth = 17.38 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/20 / 2020-03-05 16:05:56 / March 5, 2020 @ 4:05 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60008aax. Event ids that are associated: us60008aax. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:56 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.38 km (11 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Harnai, Mach, Bhāg. Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Sibi (c. 64 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mach (c. 16 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Dādhar (c. 15 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bhāg (c. 14 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Harnai (c. 11 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three 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: 13 km SSE of Dadhar, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 67.6973° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.3646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of Dadhar, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-05 16:05:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-05 20:03:12 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 298 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 5.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us60008aax Id of event.
Event Code 60008aax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008aax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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