Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Surab in Pakistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Surab in Pakistan. Exact location, longitude 66.159° East, latitude 28.6656° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:38 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/02/25 / 2025-02-17 11:20:38 / February 17, 2025 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000pe89. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pe89.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khārān, Kalāt, Sūrāb. Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Khārān (c. 30 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kalāt (c. 26 700 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Sūrāb (c. 13 100 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 have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 21 km NNW of Surab, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	66.159° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.6656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NNW of Surab, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-17 11:20:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-24 07:39:52	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	271	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	9.633	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	us7000pe89	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pe89	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pe89,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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