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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 50 km ESE of Gharm, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.8363S, 70.897WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.897° East, 38.8363° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000buhp. Id of event: us1000buhp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/12/17 / 2017-12-15 04:18:05 / December 15, 2017 @ 4:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:18:05 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Novobod, Rasht (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km ESE of Gharm, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.897° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ESE of Gharm, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-15 04:18:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-31 00:17:12 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 1.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us1000buhp Id of event.
Event Code 1000buhp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000buhp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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