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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 52 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.7772S, 73.0252WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 52 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan (32 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.29 km (34 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100044m5. Unique identifier: us100044m5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.0252 East, latitude 38.7772 North, depth = 54.29 km. Global time and date of event 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 11:19:31 / December 7, 2015 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:19:31 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 52 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.0252° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km 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 11:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 13:03:03 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 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 1.182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us100044m5 Id of event.
Event Code 100044m5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044m5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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