Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pasni in Pakistan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Pasni in Pakistan on Monday. Event id: us1000ghyc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ghyc. Exact location of earthquake, 62.9181° East, 25.0903° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 12:09:02 / August 27, 2018 @ 12:09 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:09:02 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Turbat, Gwadar, Pasni. Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Turbat (c. 75 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Gwadar (c. 51 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pasni (c. 33 100 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km WSW of Pasni, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	62.9181° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.0903° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km WSW of Pasni, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-27 12:09:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-27 12:26:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	385	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	6.092	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us1000ghyc	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ghyc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ghyc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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