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Light earthquake 4 mag, 60 km E of Murghob, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.2264S, 74.6487WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayb9. Id of event: us1000ayb9. The temblor was detected at 20:15:36 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 15:15:36 / October 29, 2017 @ 3:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 146 km (91 miles). Exact location of event, depth 146 km, 74.6487° East, 38.2264° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km E of Murghob, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.6487° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km E 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 2017-10-29 15:15:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-29 16:27:51 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 246 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 3.349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us1000ayb9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ayb9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ayb9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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