Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Gharm in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.49 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:38:00 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 33.49 km, 70.8398° East, 39.0054° North. Id of earthquake: us20009nim. Event ids that are associated: us20009nim. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/17 / 2017-06-19 03:38:00 / June 19, 2017 @ 3:38 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roghun, Novobod, Rasht.

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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 40 km E of Gharm, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.8398° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0054° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km E of Gharm, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-19 03:38:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-19 03:58:29	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	271	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	1.05	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us20009nim	Id of event.
Event Code	20009nim	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009nim,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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