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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.5144S, 72.1641WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan. The temblor was detected at 18:18:28 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005c1u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005c1u. Global time and date of event 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 13:18:28 / March 20, 2016 @ 1:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 188.33 km (117 miles). Exact location, longitude 72.1641° East, latitude 37.5144° North, depth = 188.33 km.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Khorugh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km NE of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.1641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-20 13:18:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-13 15:22:47 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 271 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 0.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us20005c1u Id of event.
Event Code 20005c1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005c1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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