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

Posted by admin on February 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.5989S, 72.4423WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mingora in Pakistan on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:21:46 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/02/25 / 2025-02-20 22:21:46 / February 20, 2025 @ 10:21 pm. Exact location, longitude 72.4423° East, latitude 34.5989° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pf43. Id of event: us7000pf43.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sanjwāl, Shabqadar, Attock City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Mardan (c. 300 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Mingora (c. 279 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Swābi (c. 97 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Nowshera Cantonment (c. 96 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Chārsadda (c. 95 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 21 km SSE of Mingora, Pakistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.4423° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SSE of Mingora, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-20 22:21:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-21 05:15:18 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 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.731 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000pf43 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pf43 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pf43, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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