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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Ishkashim in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.0391S, 71.3813WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ishkashim in Tajikistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.55 km (66 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/16 / 2016-07-10 10:58:12 / July 10, 2016 @ 10:58 am. The temblor was reported at 15:28:12 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 106.55 km, 71.3813° East, 37.0391° North. Id of earthquake: us100062d1. Event ids that are associated: us100062d1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Jurm (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km NNW of Ishkashim, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km NNW of Ishkashim, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-10 10:58:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-24 12:10:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 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 298 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 0.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us100062d1 Id of event.
Event Code 100062d1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062d1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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