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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.2124S, 73.6416WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 km NNE of Karakul, Tajikistan (15 miles). Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 00:23:18 / April 29, 2019 @ 12:23 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:23:18 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003dmi. Id of event: us70003dmi. Exact location, longitude 73.6416° East, latitude 39.2124° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 24 km NNE of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.6416° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2124° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNE of Karakul, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 00:23:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 00:50:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 1.449 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us70003dmi Id of event.
Event Code 70003dmi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003dmi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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