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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Khuzdar in Pakistan


Earthquake location 27.8183S, 65.8201WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Khuzdar in Pakistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.48 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 65.8201° East, latitude 27.8183° North, depth = 26.48 km. Unique identifier: us70003vnk. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003vnk. The temblor was reported at 11:37:53 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/06/19 / 2019-06-05 06:37:53 / June 5, 2019 @ 6:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khārān, Sūrāb (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Khārān (c. 30 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sūrāb (c. 13 100 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km W of Khuzdar, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.8201° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km W of Khuzdar, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-05 06:37:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-05 07:56:45 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 340 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 7.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70003vnk Id of event.
Event Code 70003vnk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003vnk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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