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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Musa Khel Bazar in Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.9732S, 70.0575WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Musa Khel Bazar in Pakistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:25:26 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jl8e. Unique identifier: us1000jl8e. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/19 / 2019-03-25 11:25:26 / March 25, 2019 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.0575 East, latitude 30.9732 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dāira Dīn Panāh, Karor, Kot Sultan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Leiah (c. 79 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zhob (c. 50 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Karor (c. 25 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Dāira Dīn Panāh (c. 14 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kot Sultan (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km ENE of Musa Khel Bazar, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.0575° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ENE of Musa Khel Bazar, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-25 11:25:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-25 11:42:12 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 369 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 3.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us1000jl8e Id of event.
Event Code 1000jl8e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jl8e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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