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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Murghob in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.3904S, 73.8278WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137.76 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:25:48 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 13:25:48 / October 19, 2018 @ 1:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.8278 East, latitude 38.3904 North, depth = 137.76 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hedy. Id of event: us1000hedy.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km NNW of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.8278° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NNW 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 2018-10-19 13:25:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-19 13:43:33 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 416 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 1.916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hedy Id of event.
Event Code 1000hedy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hedy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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