Pakistan earthquakes

M5.7 earthquake 9 km ESE of Battagram, Pakistan

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck 9 km ESE of Battagram, Pakistan on Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 9:26 AM GMT+5 (04:26 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M6.4 9 km NE of Battagram, Pakistan. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.7 (mb, body-wave), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 9:26 AM GMT+5
UTC: 2005-10-08 04:26:11 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 34.650° N, 73.125° E
Region: Pakistan
Felt reports: 9
Strongest shaking: VII, very strong shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.7	mb, body-wave	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · 177 stations
5.81	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.43

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Felt at Islamabad.

From the USGS event page for usp000e12v. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: VII, very strong shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 26.9% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 3.0 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

9 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Station coverage gap: 30°
Stations used: 355

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.7 and up: at least 199 in the 60 days after this one and 14 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of at least 199.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000e12v (also filed as us2005dyaj, atlas20051008042611, iscgem8173192). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 7:16 AM UTC.