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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Khuzdar in Pakistan


Earthquake location 27.4116S, 65.9291WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 79 km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan (49 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002xg2. Id of event: us10002xg2. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:16:02 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.31 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, depth 22.31 km, 65.9291° East, 27.4116° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/15 / 2015-08-03 13:16:02 / August 3, 2015 @ 1:16 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 79 km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.9291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.4116° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-03 13:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-03 13:42:07 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 432 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 7.592 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10002xg2 Id of event.
Event Code 10002xg2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xg2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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