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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 8 km WSW of Dajal, Pakistan

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Earthquake location 29.5365S, 70.2972WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Dajal in Pakistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/10/15 / 2015-10-23 00:36:53 / October 23, 2015 @ 12:36 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.87 km (17 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:36:53 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20004064. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004064. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.2972 East, latitude 29.5365 North, depth = 26.87 km.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Rājanpur (c. 50 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Jatoi Shimāli (c. 47 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Jalālpur Pīrwāla (c. 37 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Zāhir Pīr (c. 34 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Alīpur (c. 33 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khāngarh, Jalālpur Pīrwāla, Bārkhān (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km WSW of Dajal, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2972° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.5365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW of Dajal, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-23 00:36:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-10 04:33:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 4.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 us20004064 Id of event.
Event Code 20004064 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004064, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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