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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Barkhan in Pakistan


Earthquake location 30.3205S, 69.9278WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Barkhan in Pakistan. Exact location of event, longitude 69.9278 East, latitude 30.3205 North, depth = 17.08 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:33:27 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 16:33:27 / September 29, 2015 @ 4:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 17.08 km (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003iwf. Unique identifier: us10003iwf.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dājal, Taunsa, Kohlu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Dājal (c. 17 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kohlu (c. 11 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bārkhān (c. 8 800 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 60 km NE of Barkhan, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.9278° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.3205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NE 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 2015-09-29 16:33:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 20:18:09 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 312 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 4.274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us10003iwf Id of event.
Event Code 10003iwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003iwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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