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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on April 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3172S, 71.8073WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 11:50:33 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 125.02 km, 71.8073° East, 37.3172° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70008s7x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008s7x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 125.02 km (78 miles). Global time and date of event 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 06:50:33 / April 9, 2020 @ 6:50 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Khandūd. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 6 km NNW of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.8073° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW 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 2020-04-09 06:50:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 07:12:43 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 284 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 2.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us70008s7x Id of event.
Event Code 70008s7x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008s7x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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