Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Karakul in Tajikistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Karakul in Tajikistan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 73.063° East, 38.6193° North, depth 130.29 km. Event id: us20008snk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008snk. The temblor was reported at 16:36:21 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 130.29 km (81 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 11:36:21 / March 17, 2017 @ 11:36 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Murghob.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km SW of Karakul, 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	73.063° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6193° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km SW 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	2017-03-17 11:36:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-17 13:50:31	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	1.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us20008snk	Id of event.
Event Code	20008snk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008snk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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