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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Shughnon in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.5284S, 71.751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan. The temblor was detected at 05:20:25 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 133.71 km, 71.751° East, 37.5284° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 00:20:25 / January 19, 2018 @ 12:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.71 km (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ckzr. Id of event: us2000ckzr.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishqoshim, Khandūd, Khorugh. Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 15 km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2018-01-19 00:20:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-19 00:33:44 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 1.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us2000ckzr Id of event.
Event Code 2000ckzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ckzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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