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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Qila Abdullah in Pakistan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Qila Abdullah in Pakistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 07:01:10 / May 13, 2016 @ 7:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:01:10 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 66.3894 East, latitude 30.6356 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10005h1j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005h1j.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alik Ghund, Mastung, Quetta (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chaman (c. 88 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Pishin (c. 24 200 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Alik Ghund (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 28 km WSW of Qila Abdullah, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	66.3894° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.6356° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km WSW of Qila Abdullah, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-13 07:01:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-13 07:50:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	466	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	4.492	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	us10005h1j	Id of event.
Event Code	10005h1j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005h1j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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