A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Roghun in Tajikistan. Id of earthquake: us20002yzb. Event ids that are associated: us20002yzb. Exact location, longitude 69.7667° East, latitude 38.8707° North, depth = 12.4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:21:29 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 19:21:29 / July 21, 2015 @ 7:21 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Dushanbe (c. 679 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Boshkengash (c. 23 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yovon (c. 17 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khodzha-Maston, Boshkengash, Danghara. Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 13 km NW of Roghun, Tajikistan.
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