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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.652S, 73.7741WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan. Exact location, longitude 73.7741° East, latitude 38.652° North, depth = 103.69 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 00:34:13 / May 4, 2016 @ 12:34 am. The temblor was detected at 05:34:13 / 5:34 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005dip. Unique identifier: us10005dip. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 103.69 km (64 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SSE of Karakul, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.7741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SSE 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 2016-05-04 00:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-06 04:21:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 1.743 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us10005dip Id of event.
Event Code 10005dip An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dip, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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