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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Barkhan in Pakistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Barkhan in Pakistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/25 / 2025-12-17 11:43:15 / December 17, 2025 @ 11:43 am. Unique identifier: us6000rvg2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rvg2. Exact location, longitude 70.0245° East, latitude 30.1522° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:43:15 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Dera Ghazi Khan (c. 236 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Jāmpur (c. 63 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Taunsa (c. 44 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dājal (c. 17 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kohlu (c. 11 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bārkhān (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taunsa, Kohlu, Jāmpur.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km ENE of Barkhan, Pakistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.0245° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.1522° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km ENE of Barkhan, Pakistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-17 11:43:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-17 12:33:27	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	284	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.391	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	276	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	us6000rvg2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rvg2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rvg2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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