Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Rasht in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000q77e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q77e. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.801 East, latitude 38.8805 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 19/04/25 / 2025-04-19 10:22:06 / April 19, 2025 @ 10:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:22:06 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Novobod, Rasht. Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 40 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.801° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 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	2025-04-19 10:22:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-08 10:26:27	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.979	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us6000q77e	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q77e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q77e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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