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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 92 km NE of Shughnon, Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.967S, 72.4553WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005ate. Id of event: us20005ate. Exact location, longitude 72.4553° East, latitude 37.967° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:11:00 / 9:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 16:11:00 / March 18, 2016 @ 4:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh. Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 92 km NE of Shughnon, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.4553° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.967° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km NE of Shughnon, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-18 16:11:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 16:30:48 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 449 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 0.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us20005ate Id of event.
Event Code 20005ate An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005ate, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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