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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Kulob in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.9886S, 69.7004WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kulob in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/18 / 2018-12-31 15:48:07 / December 31, 2018 @ 3:48 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000izgg. Event ids that are associated: us2000izgg. Exact location of earthquake, 69.7004° East, 37.9886° North, depth 28.81 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:07 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). 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 28.81 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Farkhor (c. 21 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Vose’ (c. 21 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Vahdat, Qŭrghonteppa (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 10 km NW of Kulob, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.7004° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Kulob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-31 15:48:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-31 16:12:02 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 246 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 0.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000izgg Id of event.
Event Code 2000izgg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000izgg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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