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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Karakul in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.3566S, 73.9707WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 53 km NE of Karakul, Tajikistan (33 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 73.9707° East, 39.3566° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us10007ecv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007ecv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:40:03 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 14:40:03 / November 25, 2016 @ 2:40 pm.

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

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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. 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: 53 km NE of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.9707° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3566° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NE 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 14:40:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 14:26:43 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 400 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 1.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10007ecv Id of event.
Event Code 10007ecv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ecv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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