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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.1677S, 74.3492WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 70 km ENE of Karakul, Tajikistan (43 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 74.3492° East, latitude 39.1677° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007cdb. Id of event: us10007cdb. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 20:58:20 / November 25, 2016 @ 8:58 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:58:20 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km ENE of Karakul, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.3492° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km ENE 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 2016-11-25 20:58:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 23:01:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 1.998 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us10007cdb Id of event.
Event Code 10007cdb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cdb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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