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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan

Posted by admin on October 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.1092S, 70.163WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/25 / 2025-10-20 05:42:01 / October 20, 2025 @ 5:42 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ri96. Unique identifier: us6000ri96. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:42:01 / 5:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 70.163 East, latitude 30.1092 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Muzaffargarh (c. 165 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kot Addu (c. 104 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Jatoi Shimāli (c. 47 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Khāngarh (c. 19 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muzaffargarh, Khāngarh, Jatoi Shimāli (min 5000 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km W of Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.1092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km W of Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-20 05:42:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-20 06:13:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000ri96 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ri96 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ri96, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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