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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Sanjwal in Pakistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Sanjwal in Pakistan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:30:56 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 39.205 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/25 / 2025-04-12 07:30:56 / April 12, 2025 @ 7:30 am. Exact location of event, depth 39.205 km, 72.5557° East, 33.8085° North. Unique identifier: us6000q5ld. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q5ld.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bat Khela, Nazir Town, Shabqadar. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Rawalpindi (c. 1 743 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Peshawar (c. 1 218 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Islamabad (c. 601 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mardan (c. 300 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Abbottābād (c. 120 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Chakwāl (c. 101 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Swābi (c. 97 400 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ENE of Sanjwal, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.5557° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.8085° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.205 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ENE of Sanjwal, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-12 07:30:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-12 07:46:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	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	389	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	117	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.923	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us6000q5ld	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q5ld	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q5ld,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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