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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 117 km SSW of Jiwani, Pakistan


Earthquake location 24.094S, 61.2479WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (mg/mb) was reported Thursday, 117 kilometers (73 miles) from Jiwani in Pakistan. The temblor was reported at 20:01:20 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 12.36 km (8 miles). Global time of event 14/05/15 / 2015-05-14 16:01:20 / May 14, 2015 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 61.2479 East, latitude 24.094 North, depth 12.36 km, unique identifier, us100028z8. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us100028z8,.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 61.2479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SSW of Jiwani, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-14 16:01:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-14 16:17:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 449 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 10.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us100028z8 Id of event.
Event Code 100028z8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100028z8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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