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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 91 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.2193S, 72.926WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 09:36:26 / July 29, 2018 @ 9:36 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ggke. Id of event: us2000ggke. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.5 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:36:26 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 72.926° East, latitude 38.2193° North, depth = 129.5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km W 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 2018-07-29 09:36:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-04 05:40:37 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 298 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 1.536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000ggke Id of event.
Event Code 2000ggke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ggke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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