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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ormara in Pakistan


Earthquake location 25.7772S, 65.0669WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Ormara in Pakistan on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 65.0669 East, latitude 25.7772 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 23:37:21 / July 25, 2016 @ 11:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:37:21 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20006hm6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hm6.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ormāra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Ormāra (c. 13 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km NE of Ormara, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.0669° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.7772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km NE of Ormara, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-25 23:37:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-26 00:01:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 326 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 17.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us20006hm6 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hm6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hm6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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