A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Murghob 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 13:48:06 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 132.22 km (82 miles). Global time and date of event 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 08:48:06 / October 20, 2018 @ 8:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 73.7924 East, latitude 38.4108 North, depth = 132.22 km. Unique identifier: us1000hewu. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hewu.
Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). 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).
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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 30 km NNW of Murghob, Tajikistan.
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