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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Batgram in Pakistan


Earthquake location 34.6711S, 72.9065WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Batgram in Pakistan on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 03:10:27 / June 12, 2019 @ 3:10 am. Id of earthquake: us70003ydx. Event ids that are associated: us70003ydx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.7 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:10:27 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 72.9065° East, 34.6711° North, depth 30.7 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Islamabad, Akora, Murree (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Muzaffarābād (c. 725 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Islamabad (c. 601 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mardan (c. 300 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mingora (c. 279 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Swābi (c. 97 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mānsehra (c. 66 500 pop).

Each 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km W of Batgram, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.9065° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km W of Batgram, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-12 03:10:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 03:27:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 417 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 1.061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us70003ydx Id of event.
Event Code 70003ydx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ydx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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