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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Murghob in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on December 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3S, 72.9155WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 17:51:47 / December 7, 2015 @ 5:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100044sm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100044sm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 22:51:47 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.9155 East, latitude 38.3 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 93 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.9155° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km W of Murghob, 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 17:51:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 19:35:03 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 340 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 1.255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us100044sm Id of event.
Event Code 100044sm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044sm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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