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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.3767S, 72.7493WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 98 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan (61 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 72.7493° East, 38.3767° North, depth 6.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20004fzu. Event ids that are associated: us20004fzu. Global time and date of event 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 19:17:39 / December 9, 2015 @ 7:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:17:39 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.08 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 98 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.7493° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km 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 2015-12-09 19:17:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-09 19:36:27 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 385 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 1.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us20004fzu Id of event.
Event Code 20004fzu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fzu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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