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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Murghob in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3217S, 73.9981WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 08:57:10 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 115.7 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004vsy. Id of event: us10004vsy. Exact location of event, depth 115.7 km, 73.9981° East, 38.3217° North. Global time and date of event 07/03/16 / 2016-03-07 03:57:10 / March 7, 2016 @ 3:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 17 km N of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.9981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N 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 2016-03-07 03:57:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-07 05:05:01 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 2.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10004vsy Id of event.
Event Code 10004vsy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vsy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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