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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ishkashim in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 36.9397S, 71.5243WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ishkashim in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:56:09 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 22:56:09 / May 2, 2018 @ 10:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.32 km (61 miles). Exact location, longitude 71.5243° East, latitude 36.9397° North, depth = 98.32 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dwat. Id of event: us1000dwat.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Khandūd, Jurm. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km NNW of Ishkashim, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.5243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9397° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNW of Ishkashim, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-02 22:56:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 23:24:48 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 312 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 0.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us1000dwat Id of event.
Event Code 1000dwat An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dwat, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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