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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ishqoshim in Tajikistan

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Earthquake location 36.9709S, 71.4062WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ishqoshim in Tajikistan. Unique identifier: us6000r2hn. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2hn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 21:10:33 / July 31, 2025 @ 9:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 112.482 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:10:33 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 112.482 km, 71.4062° East, 36.9709° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Khorugh. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 32 km NW of Ishqoshim, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.4062° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.482 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km NW of Ishqoshim, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-31 21:10:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-22 22:08:37 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 271 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us6000r2hn Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2hn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2hn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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