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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 22 km SSE of Novobod, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.8139S, 70.2103WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Novobod in Tajikistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007ac0. Id of event: us10007ac0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/16 / 2016-11-19 02:01:22 / November 19, 2016 @ 2:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 70.2103° East, 38.8139° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:22 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Norak, Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 22 km SSE of Novobod, 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 70.2103° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSE of Novobod, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-19 02:01:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-18 00:17:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 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 0.203 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us10007ac0 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ac0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ac0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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