A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Tajikistan kilometers (0 miles) from Tajikistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 119.73 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 22:36:01 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 71.7388° East, 37.5066° North, depth 119.73 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008vu0. Unique identifier: us10008vu0. Global time and date of event 27/05/17 / 2017-05-27 22:36:01 / May 27, 2017 @ 10:36 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Khandūd. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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