A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 72.3344 East, latitude 39.2583 North, depth = 50.56 km. Global time and date of event 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 14:19:45 / January 3, 2017 @ 2:19 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.56 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007pgl. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007pgl. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:19:45 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shohimardon. Close country/countries that might be effected, Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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