A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:20:43 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 23:20:43 / April 30, 2016 @ 11:20 pm. Unique identifier: us10005cs6. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005cs6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.48 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 74.6225 East, latitude 38.1686 North, depth = 132.48 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 57 km E of Murghob, Tajikistan.
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