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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 44 km NNW of Kalat, Pakistan


Earthquake location 29.4128S, 66.4727WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Kalat in Pakistan. Event id: us2000bjyb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bjyb. Global time and date of event 07/11/17 / 2017-11-07 18:58:50 / November 7, 2017 @ 6:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 66.4727 East, latitude 29.4128 North, depth = 17.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:58:50 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.4 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quetta, Kot Malik, Mach (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Nushki (c. 27 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kalāt (c. 26 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mach (c. 16 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NNW of Kalat, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 66.4727° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NNW of Kalat, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-07 18:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-07 19:17:52 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 370 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 10.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us2000bjyb Id of event.
Event Code 2000bjyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bjyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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