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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Gharm in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on July 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8825S, 70.6257WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 14:58:55 / July 1, 2016 @ 2:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005z7c. Id of event: us10005z7c. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.6257° East, 38.8825° North. The temblor was reported at 19:58:55 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm, Roghun (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 27 km SE of Gharm, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SE of Gharm, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-01 14:58:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 15:19:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 449 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 0.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us10005z7c Id of event.
Event Code 10005z7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005z7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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