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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Rasht in Tajikistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6156 East, latitude 38.9199 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 14:40:37 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000cei4. Event ids that are associated: us7000cei4. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/20 / 2020-11-10 14:40:37 / November 10, 2020 @ 2:40 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm, Roghun (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 24 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6156° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9199° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-10 14:40:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-15 17:08:42	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	385	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	1.082	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us7000cei4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cei4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cei4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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