Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Karakenja in Tajikistan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.4438 East, latitude 39.4749 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/17 / 2017-05-05 05:09:35 / May 5, 2017 @ 5:09 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008pk9. Id of event: us10008pk9. The temblor was reported at 10:09:35 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toshloq, Yaypan, Marg‘ilon. The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Quvasoy (c. 32 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Kyzyl-Kyya (c. 32 000 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from Toshloq (c. 26 700 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Iradan (c. 26 200 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Oltiariq (c. 25 500 pop). Close country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km NNW of Karakenja, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.4438° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4749° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km NNW of Karakenja, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-05 05:09:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-05 05:31:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.23	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	520	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	0.755	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10008pk9	Id of event.
Event Code	10008pk9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008pk9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

71.4438° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

39.4749° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

27km NNW of Karakenja, Tajikistan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-05-05 05:09:35

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-05-05 05:31:06

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

4.1

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.23

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

520

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.755

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.22 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008pk9

Id of event.

Event Code

10008pk9

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008pk9,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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