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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.5921S, 72.27WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Monday. Id of earthquake: us10007ds7. Event ids that are associated: us10007ds7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 14:08:53 / November 21, 2016 @ 2:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.27 East, latitude 37.5921 North, depth = 199.5 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:08:53 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 199.5 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 54 km NE of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.27° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 199.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NE of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-21 14:08:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-15 21:54:09 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 298 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 0.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us10007ds7 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ds7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ds7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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