A 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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