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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 19 km SE of Mach, Pakistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mach in Pakistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 67.4482 East, latitude 29.7252 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 06:00:04 / March 16, 2019 @ 6:00 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:00:04 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000jgz1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jgz1.

Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Quetta (c. 733 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kot Malik (c. 69 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sibi (c. 64 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mastung (c. 29 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Pishin (c. 24 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Mach (c. 16 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Dādhar (c. 15 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pishin, Alik Ghund, Bhāg.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 19 km SE of Mach, Pakistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	67.4482° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.7252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km SE of Mach, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-16 06:00:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-16 06:16:33	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	385	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	4.988	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us1000jgz1	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jgz1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jgz1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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