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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Dalbandin in Pakistan


Earthquake location 28.8527S, 64.3979WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Dalbandin in Pakistan on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 00:06:01 / October 17, 2015 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:06:01 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 64.3979° East, latitude 28.8527° North, depth = 68.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003paa. Unique identifier: us10003paa. The epicenter was at a depth of 68.09 km (42 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dālbandīn (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Event epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Dālbandīn (c. 14 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SSW of Dalbandin, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 64.3979° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Dalbandin, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-17 00:06:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-17 00:26:34 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 5.814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us10003paa Id of event.
Event Code 10003paa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003paa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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