Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Shughnon in Tajikistan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, 71.9091° East, 37.6554° North, depth 24.31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008tqc. Id of event: us20008tqc. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:27:05 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 11:27:05 / March 22, 2017 @ 11:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.31 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (23 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Khorugh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.9091° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6554° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km ENE of Shughnon, 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 11:27:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-22 11:46:08	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	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	0.234	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us20008tqc	Id of event.
Event Code	20008tqc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008tqc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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