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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Idgah in Pakistan

Posted by admin on December 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.639S, 74.627WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Idgah in Pakistan. Exact location of earthquake, 74.627° East, 35.639° North, depth 40.21 km. Event id: us70006sj8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006sj8. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.21 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 17:19:01 / December 30, 2019 @ 5:19 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:19:01 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gilgit (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Gilgit (c. 10 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 38 km NNW of Idgah, Pakistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.627° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Idgah, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-30 17:19:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 17:37:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 433 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 2.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us70006sj8 Id of event.
Event Code 70006sj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006sj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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