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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Barkhan in Pakistan

Posted by admin on March 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.7546S, 69.93WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Barkhan in Pakistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 06:35:11 / March 2, 2016 @ 6:35 am 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. Exact location of earthquake, 69.93° East, 29.7546° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us10004u08. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004u08. The temblor was reported at 11:35:11 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jatoi Shimāli, Rājanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rājanpur (c. 50 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Jatoi Shimāli (c. 47 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dājal (c. 17 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Kohlu (c. 11 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bārkhān (c. 8 800 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 has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 42 km ESE of Barkhan, Pakistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.93° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.7546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ESE of Barkhan, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-02 06:35:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 07:58:37 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 326 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 4.814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us10004u08 Id of event.
Event Code 10004u08 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004u08, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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