A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 72.2869 East, latitude 37.5163 North, depth = 188.35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/16 / 2016-04-08 21:38:10 / April 8, 2016 @ 9:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:38:10 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005giu. Unique identifier: us20005giu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.35 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Khandūd (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km NE of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.
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