A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000450u. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000450u. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 73.2614 East, latitude 38.3127 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/15 / 2015-12-08 04:17:50 / December 8, 2015 @ 4:17 am. The temblor was reported at 09:17:50 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km WNW of Murghob, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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