Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Gharm in Tajikistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 70.6624° East, latitude 38.699° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000a6wk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a6wk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 13:43:52 / August 10, 2017 @ 1:43 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:43:52 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm, Roghun (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 44 km SE of Gharm, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6624° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.699° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SE 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	2017-08-10 13:43:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-10 15:03:14	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	0.404	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us2000a6wk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a6wk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a6wk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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