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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Murghob in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on July 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2305S, 73.6797WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan on Tuesday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:52:03 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 155.4 km (97 miles). Exact location, longitude 73.6797° East, latitude 38.2305° North, depth = 155.4 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/16 / 2016-07-05 15:52:03 / July 5, 2016 @ 3:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006049. Unique identifier: us10006049.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km WNW of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.6797° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km WNW of Murghob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-05 15:52:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-05 17:46:02 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 284 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 1.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us10006049 Id of event.
Event Code 10006049 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006049, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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