Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Khorugh in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan. The epicenter was at a depth of 108.58 km (67 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:57:46 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 71.2642° East, 37.1698° North, depth 108.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20009ndb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009ndb. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/17 / 2017-06-18 00:27:46 / June 18, 2017 @ 12:27 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 43 km SW of Khorugh, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2642° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1698° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	108.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SW of Khorugh, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-18 00:27:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-02 04:40:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	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	246	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	0.551	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us20009ndb	Id of event.
Event Code	20009ndb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009ndb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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