Major earthquake, 7.2 mag strikes near Murghob in Tajikistan

A major earthquake magnitude 7.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 109 kilometers (68 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100044k6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100044k6. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 07:50:07 / December 7, 2015 @ 7:50 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 72.7177° East, latitude 38.2629° North, depth = 28.73 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:50:07 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.73 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 134 km (83 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Murghob (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 109 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.7177° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2629° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109km 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 07:50:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-07 08:14:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	800	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	1.111	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us100044k6	Id of event.
Event Code	100044k6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100044k6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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