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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Rasht in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on April 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.9928S, 70.7482WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:20:33 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000q7fe. Event ids that are associated: us6000q7fe. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 70.7482 East, latitude 38.9928 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/04/25 / 2025-04-20 20:20:33 / April 20, 2025 @ 8:20 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Novobod, Rasht (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Each 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 32 km E of Rasht, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.7482° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km E 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 2025-04-20 20:20:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-20 20:40:50 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 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.949 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000q7fe Id of event.
Event Code 6000q7fe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q7fe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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