A 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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