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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Chilas in Pakistan


Earthquake location 35.0109S, 74.2087WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chilas in Pakistan. The temblor was picked up at 02:11:27 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 21:11:27 / February 5, 2019 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000jdur. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jdur. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 74.2087 East, latitude 35.0109 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bāramūla, Hājan, Sopur (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Bāramūla (c. 77 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sopur (c. 63 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bandipura (c. 32 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Hājan (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SSE of Chilas, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.2087° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0109° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Chilas, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-05 21:11:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 04:31:53 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 246 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us2000jdur Id of event.
Event Code 2000jdur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jdur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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