Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 96 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan (60 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20008tuu. Event ids that are associated: us20008tuu. The temblor was picked up at 23:57:16 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.6237 East, latitude 38.5323 North, depth = 92.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.42 km (57 miles). Global time and date of event 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 18:57:16 / March 22, 2017 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 96 km WSW of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.6237° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96km WSW 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	2017-03-22 18:57:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-22 22:43:08	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	284	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	1.144	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us20008tuu	Id of event.
Event Code	20008tuu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008tuu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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