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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.2035S, 71.8089WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.91 km (106 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.8089 East, latitude 37.2035 North, depth = 169.91 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 11:07:06 / February 23, 2019 @ 11:07 am. Id of earthquake: us2000jlzx. Event ids that are associated: us2000jlzx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:07:06 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Khandūd. Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SSW of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.8089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-23 11:07:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-23 11:29:34 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 0.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us2000jlzx Id of event.
Event Code 2000jlzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jlzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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