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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Bagh in Pakistan


Earthquake location 34.2193S, 73.7628WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Bagh in Pakistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:51:23 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000bw6p. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bw6p. Exact location, longitude 73.7628° East, latitude 34.2193° North, depth = 26.89 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 23:51:23 / December 25, 2017 @ 11:51 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.89 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soyībug, Islamabad, Bandipura (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kotli (c. 640 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Islamabad (c. 601 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Soyībug (c. 104 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 26 km N of Bagh, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.7628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km N of Bagh, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-25 23:51:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 00:35:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 259 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 0.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us1000bw6p Id of event.
Event Code 1000bw6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bw6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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