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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 16 km N of Barkhan, Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.0431S, 69.5526WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Barkhan in Pakistan. The temblor was detected at 19:29:13 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.5526 East, latitude 30.0431 North, depth = 36.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60009c7n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009c7n. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 14:29:13 / April 25, 2020 @ 2:29 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.08 km (22 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kohlu, Bārkhān. Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Kohlu (c. 11 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Bārkhān (c. 8 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 16 km N of Barkhan, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.5526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.0431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N of Barkhan, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-25 14:29:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 18:00:29 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 259 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 4.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us60009c7n Id of event.
Event Code 60009c7n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009c7n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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