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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.4908S, 72.1209WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 72.1209° East, 37.4908° North, depth 189.33 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003nsk. Unique identifier: us20003nsk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 18:25:41 / September 24, 2015 @ 6:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:25:41 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 189.33 km (118 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km NE of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.1209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 189.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NE of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 18:25:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 22:50:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us20003nsk Id of event.
Event Code 20003nsk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nsk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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