A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan on Thursday. Global time and date of event 30/06/16 / 2016-06-30 07:09:42 / June 30, 2016 @ 7:09 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 72.9194° East, 38.3395° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us10005yl7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005yl7. The temblor was reported at 12:09:42 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob. Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 92 km SW of Karakul, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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