Pakistan earthquakes

M5.9 earthquake 17 km SE of Muzaffar?b?d, Pakistan

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck 17 km SE of Muzaffar?b?d, Pakistan on Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 8:57 AM GMT+5 (03:57 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: 5.9 (mb, body-wave), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 8:57 AM GMT+5
UTC: 2005-10-08 03:57:19 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 34.238° N, 73.579° E
Region: Pakistan
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
5.9	mb, body-wave	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · 7 stations
5.94	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.36

What happened

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

no people dead or missing; no people injured; no buildings damaged or destroyed

From the USGS event page for usp000e12f. 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: 27.4% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 3.1 cm/s
Map: Automatic

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

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Station coverage gap: 123°
Stations used: 25

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.9 and up: at least 199 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of at least 199.

Before

7.621 km NNE of Muzaffar?b?d, PakistanSat, Oct 8, 8:50 AM GMT+5 · 7665 days ago · 26 km deep · 33 km away · felt by 417

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000e12f (also filed as atlas20051008035719, iscgem8173189). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC.