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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Shughnon in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.7994S, 72.1924WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.92 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000chn8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000chn8. The temblor was reported at 00:34:33 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 72.1924° East, 37.7994° North, depth 139.92 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 19:34:33 / February 6, 2018 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh. Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.1924° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km 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 2018-02-06 19:34:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-06 20:22:03 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 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 2.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us1000chn8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000chn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000chn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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