Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Rasht in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:55:01 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/25 / 2025-05-08 02:55:01 / May 8, 2025 @ 2:55 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pxva. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pxva. Exact location, longitude 70.8° East, latitude 38.9117° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Novobod, Rasht (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.8° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9117° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 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	2025-05-08 02:55:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-08 03:13:14	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	312	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.96	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us7000pxva	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pxva	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pxva,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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