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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.7954S, 73.0724WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 47 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan (29 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100044y7. Unique identifier: us100044y7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 23:27:10 / December 7, 2015 @ 11:27 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.48 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:27:10 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 73.0724° East, latitude 38.7954° North, depth = 66.48 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 47 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.0724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km WSW 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 23:27:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-14 01:09:34 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 271 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 1.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us100044y7 Id of event.
Event Code 100044y7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044y7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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