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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 49 km W of Dalbandin, Pakistan


Earthquake location 28.8962S, 63.9003WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Dalbandin in Pakistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 14:17:05 / October 19, 2015 @ 2:17 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:17:05 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 63.9003° East, 28.8962° North, depth 99.87 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003pnd. Unique identifier: us10003pnd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.87 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dālbandīn. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Dālbandīn (c. 14 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km W of Dalbandin, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 63.9003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km W 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 2015-10-19 14:17:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-19 16:50:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 5.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us10003pnd Id of event.
Event Code 10003pnd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pnd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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