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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan

Posted by admin on June 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.1014S, 70.1964WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 14:21:29 / June 17, 2018 @ 2:21 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:21:29 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000etwv. Unique identifier: us1000etwv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 70.1964 East, latitude 30.1014 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Muzaffargarh (c. 165 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kot Addu (c. 104 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Jatoi Shimāli (c. 47 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 105 km (66 miles) from Alīpur (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alīpur, Kot Sultan, Shahr Sultān (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 W of Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1964° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.1014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km W of Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-17 14:21:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 14:41:42 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 2 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 416 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 4.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000etwv Id of event.
Event Code 1000etwv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000etwv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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