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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Gharm in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on December 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8983S, 70.5712WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 13:19:31 / December 6, 2016 @ 1:19 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007f5g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007f5g. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:31 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.87 km, 70.5712° East, 38.8983° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.87 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Obigarm, Roghun, Novobod. Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SE of Gharm, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.5712° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8983° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2016-12-06 13:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 14:31:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 312 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 0.223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10007f5g Id of event.
Event Code 10007f5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007f5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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