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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Barkhan in Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.0204S, 70.0315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Barkhan in Pakistan. The temblor was reported at 14:10:12 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 24.42 km (15 miles). Global time of event 17/05/15 / 2015-05-17 09:10:12 / May 17, 2015 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 70.0315 East, latitude 30.0204 North, depth 24.42 km, unique identifier, us100029xp. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us100029xp,.

Close countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Dājal (c. 17 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kohlu (c. 11 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Bārkhān (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kohlu, Jāmpur, Dājal.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.0315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.0204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ENE 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 2015-05-17 09:10:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-05 08:40:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 271 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 4.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us100029xp Id of event.
Event Code 100029xp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100029xp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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