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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on August 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.7211S, 72.5437WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 93 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan (58 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:05:22 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 72.5437° East, latitude 38.7211° North, depth = 14.18 km. Unique identifier: us10006drz. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006drz. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 15:05:22 / August 14, 2016 @ 3:05 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.18 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 93 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.5437° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km WSW 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 2016-08-14 15:05:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 15:23:36 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 385 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 1.378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10006drz Id of event.
Event Code 10006drz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006drz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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