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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Chaman in Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.9067S, 66.4656WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Chaman in Pakistan. Exact location, longitude 66.4656° East, latitude 30.9067° North, depth = 23.77 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:55 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100062gd. Unique identifier: us100062gd. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/16 / 2016-07-10 21:33:55 / July 10, 2016 @ 9:33 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.77 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Chaman (c. 88 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pishin (c. 24 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quetta, Kot Malik, Pishin (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SE of Chaman, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.4656° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SE of Chaman, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-10 21:33:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-10 21:52:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 340 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 4.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us100062gd Id of event.
Event Code 100062gd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062gd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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