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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 13 km W of Gadani, Pakistan


Earthquake location 25.1285S, 66.595WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Gadani in Pakistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/11/20 / 2020-11-02 01:17:08 / November 2, 2020 @ 1:17 am. Exact location of earthquake, 66.595° East, 25.1285° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 01:17:08 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000c946. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c946.

Close country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Karachi (c. 11 624 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Malir Cantonment (c. 300 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Uthal (c. 16 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Gadāni (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uthal, Malir Cantonment, Karachi.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 13 km W of Gadani, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.1285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km W of Gadani, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-02 01:17:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-02 02:49:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 9.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us7000c946 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c946 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c946, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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