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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Karakenja in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.5479S, 71.2875WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan. Exact location, longitude 71.2875° East, latitude 39.5479° North, depth = 13.68 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:10:46 / 3:10 am (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 13.68 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cd5e. Unique identifier: us6000cd5e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 03:10:46 / October 26, 2020 @ 3:10 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Oltiariq (c. 25 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Khaydarkan (c. 11 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Batken (c. 10 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rasht, Oltiariq, Isfara (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 40 km NNW of Karakenja, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km NNW 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 2020-10-26 03:10:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-26 04:03:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 326 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 0.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us6000cd5e Id of event.
Event Code 6000cd5e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cd5e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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