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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 28 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.9676S, 70.6936WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.6936° East, 38.9676° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/04/25 / 2025-04-13 07:14:17 / April 13, 2025 @ 7:14 am. Unique identifier: us6000q5r0. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q5r0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:14:17 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Obigarm, Roghun, Novobod (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 28 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 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 2025-04-13 07:14:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-08 05:29:30 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 298 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us6000q5r0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000q5r0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q5r0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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