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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Shughnon in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.6213S, 71.693WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.58 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:51:22 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.693 East, latitude 37.6213 North, depth = 12.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/17 / 2017-03-28 23:51:22 / March 28, 2017 @ 11:51 pm. Event id: us20008vfp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008vfp.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km NE of Shughnon, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NE 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 2017-03-28 23:51:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-29 01:13:47 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 259 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 0.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us20008vfp Id of event.
Event Code 20008vfp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008vfp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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