Quakedle
Puzzle #95 was 48 km WNW of Khuzdar, Pakistan.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.7 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- The Himalaya and South Asia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 2 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- yellow PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Indian Plate · Eurasian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Continental collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates builds the Himalaya and deforms a broad part of South and Southeast Asia.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.7. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “48 km WNW of Khuzdar, Pakistan”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Himalaya and South Asia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.