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


Earthquake location 30.8048S, 70.2686WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Taunsa in Pakistan on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/04/19 / 2019-04-05 02:20:18 / April 5, 2019 @ 2:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:20:18 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000kakr. Unique identifier: us2000kakr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.2686° East, 30.8048° North.

Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kot Addu (c. 104 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Leiah (c. 79 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Karor (c. 25 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Dāira Dīn Panāh (c. 14 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kot Sultan (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dera Ghazi Khan, Karor, Kot Addu. Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km WNW of Taunsa, Pakistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WNW of Taunsa, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-05 02:20:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-05 02:52:21 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 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 3.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000kakr Id of event.
Event Code 2000kakr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kakr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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