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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.5424S, 73.2227WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100044nz. Unique identifier: us100044nz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.2227 East, latitude 38.5424 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 15:23:56 / December 7, 2015 @ 3:23 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:23:56 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km SSW of Karakul, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.2227° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSW of Karakul, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-07 15:23:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 20:50:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 354 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 1.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us100044nz Id of event.
Event Code 100044nz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044nz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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