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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.2264S, 74.5655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 90 km ENE of Karakul, Tajikistan (56 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20007zw8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zw8. Exact location of event, longitude 74.5655 East, latitude 39.2264 North, depth = 45.43 km. The temblor was detected at 11:36:30 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 03:36:30 / December 11, 2016 @ 3:36 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.43 km (28 miles).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km ENE of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.5655° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km ENE 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 2016-12-11 03:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 04:04:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 2.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us20007zw8 Id of event.
Event Code 20007zw8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zw8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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