Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Khorugh in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 71.1647° East, latitude 37.317° North, depth = 95.663 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/25 / 2025-08-10 12:46:12 / August 10, 2025 @ 12:46 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 95.663 km (59 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:46:12 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000qtu1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qtu1.

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Jurm (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km WSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.1647° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.317° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	95.663 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km WSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-10 12:46:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-07 10:30:36	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.443	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us7000qtu1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qtu1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qtu1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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