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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Istaravshan in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.6583S, 69.1659WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Istaravshan in Tajikistan on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 23:32:31 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10003pyt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003pyt. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 18:32:31 / October 20, 2015 @ 6:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 69.1659° East, latitude 39.6583° North, depth = 9.94 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.94 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khŭjand, Chkalov, Dashtobod. Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Khŭjand (c. 144 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bekobod (c. 86 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Istaravshan (c. 52 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Yangiyer (c. 32 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Zomin (c. 27 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Chkalov (c. 21 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dashtobod (c. 19 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SSE of Istaravshan, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.1659° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6583° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SSE of Istaravshan, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-20 18:32:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-21 16:08:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 312 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10003pyt Id of event.
Event Code 10003pyt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pyt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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