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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Karakenja in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.1397S, 71.5177WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.5177 East, latitude 39.1397 North, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 07:09:15 / January 24, 2020 @ 7:09 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:09:15 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ei6. Id of event: us60007ei6.

Close country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rasht, Shohimardon, Khaydarkan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Khaydarkan (c. 11 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km S of Karakenja, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.5177° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1397° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Karakenja, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-24 07:09:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-24 07:29:22 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 6.448 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 0.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us60007ei6 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ei6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ei6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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