An Analysis of Pakistan's Local Network Catalog of Earthquake for the Period of 1905-2007 (Report‪)‬

Byline: Farhana Sarwar, Saleem Iqbal and LalaRukh Kamal ABSTRACT : Pakistan is situated in a highly seismically active region and has experienced many disastrous earthquakes in the past. The October 2005 Muzaffarabad Earthquake M7.4 enhanced need for earthquake prediction studies and seismic hazardanalysis. But before one proceed in such investigation it is essential to examine and report on the spatial and temporal homogeneity and completeness of the earthquake catalog as they are a valuable result of fundamental seismological practice and form the basis for icity,seismotectonic, seismic risk and hazard investigation. This paper is focused on the analysis of local catalog of Pakistan referred from the PMD (Pakistan metrological department) covers a period of 1905 to 2007 and its comparison is done with the Global Catalog of National Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC). Pakistan and adjoining region lying between longitude 60oE to 78o E and latitude 20oN to 45oN is selected for the study.