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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 96 km ESE of Vanj, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.0479S, 72.4752WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 96 km ESE of Vanj, Tajikistan (60 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:43:46 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). 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 124.73 km (78 miles). Id of earthquake: us20008k0m. Event ids that are associated: us20008k0m. Exact location of event, longitude 72.4752 East, latitude 38.0479 North, depth = 124.73 km. Global time and date of event 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 16:43:46 / February 15, 2017 @ 4:43 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 96 km ESE of Vanj, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.4752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km ESE of Vanj, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-15 16:43:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-15 23:27:56 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 284 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 0.827 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us20008k0m Id of event.
Event Code 20008k0m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008k0m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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