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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 42 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan

Posted by admin on December 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.754S, 73.1797WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan. The temblor was picked up at 23:54:33 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 73.1797 East, latitude 38.754 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 18:54:33 / December 7, 2015 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100044tx. Event ids that are associated: us100044tx.

Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob (min 5000 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 twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.1797° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-07 18:54:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 20:15:58 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 312 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 1.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us100044tx Id of event.
Event Code 100044tx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044tx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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