Light mag. 3.9 earthquake - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 52 km north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Dec 15, 2021 at 1:45 pm (GMT +5) -
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Light magnitude 3.9 earthquake at 15 km depth
15 Dec 08:57 UTC: First to report: NCS after 12 minutes.
Earthquake details
| Date & time | Dec 15, 2021 08:45:03 UTC - |
| Local time at epicenter | Wednesday, Dec 15, 2021 at 1:45 pm (GMT +5) |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Magnitude | 3.9 |
| Depth | 15.0 km |
| Epicenter latitude / longitude | 34.82°N / 73.62°E  (Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) |
| Antipode | 34.82°S / 106.38°W |
| Shaking intensity | Light shaking near epicenter |
| Felt | 0 reports |
| Primary data source | NCS (National Center for Seismology) |
| Nearby towns and cities | 52 km (32 mi) NNE of Muzaffarabad (Azad Kashmir) (pop: 725,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 57 km (35 mi) ENE of Battagram (pop: 700,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 67 km (42 mi) NE of Mansehra (pop: 66,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 84 km (52 mi) NNE of Abbotabad (pop: 120,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 95 km (59 mi) NW of Bāramūla (Jammu and Kashmir, India) (pop: 77,300) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 95 km (59 mi) NNE of Havelian (pop: 40,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 98 km (61 mi) NW of Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir, India) (pop: 63,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 133 km (83 mi) NNE of Islamabad (pop: 601,600) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 146 km (91 mi) NNE of Rawalpindi (Punjab) (pop: 1,743,100) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 208 km (129 mi) ENE of Peshawar (pop: 1,218,800) | Show on map | Quakes nearby |
| Weather at epicenter at time of quake | Light Snow  -13.1°C (9 F), humidity: 58%, wind: 1 m/s (3 kts) from SE |
| Estimated seismic energy released | 4.5 x 1010 joules (12.4 megawatt hours, equivalent to 10.7 tons of TNT) | about seismic energy |
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| Mag. | Depth | Location | Source |
| 3.9 | 15 km | Pakistan | NCS |
| 3.9 | 15 km | PAKISTAN | EMSC |
| 3.4 | 10 km | Pakistan: NORTHWESTERN KASHMIR | KNDC |
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