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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Rasht in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.6143S, 70.6893WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Rasht in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qha2. Unique identifier: us6000qha2. The temblor was detected at 17:09:10 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/06/25 / 2025-06-01 17:09:10 / June 1, 2025 @ 5:09 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.6893 East, latitude 38.6143 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Obigarm, Mŭ’minobod, Roghun. Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 53 km SSE of Rasht, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6893° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6143° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SSE 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 2025-06-01 17:09:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-02 15:14:47 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 259 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us6000qha2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qha2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qha2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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