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


Earthquake location 38.354S, 73.1425WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan on Tuesday. 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 127.07 km (79 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:49:44 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/03/17 / 2017-03-07 09:49:44 / March 7, 2017 @ 9:49 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100087fc. Id of event: us100087fc. Exact location of earthquake, 73.1425° East, 38.354° North, depth 127.07 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 74 km WNW of Murghob, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.1425° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km WNW of Murghob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-07 09:49:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-07 14:19:35 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 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 1.431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us100087fc Id of event.
Event Code 100087fc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100087fc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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