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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.7231S, 73.1571WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.62 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10004e8c. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004e8c. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/16 / 2016-01-13 21:37:40 / January 13, 2016 @ 9:37 pm. Exact location, longitude 73.1571° East, latitude 38.7231° North, depth = 38.62 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:37:40 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 46 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.1571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SW 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 2016-01-13 21:37:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-13 22:04:16 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 385 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 1.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10004e8c Id of event.
Event Code 10004e8c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004e8c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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