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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Murghob in Tajikistan

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Earthquake location 38.3834S, 73.7817WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/02/18 / 2018-02-14 23:21:44 / February 14, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000d2ei. Event ids that are associated: us2000d2ei. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 135.66 km (84 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 73.7817 East, latitude 38.3834 North, depth = 135.66 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:21:44 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob. Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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: 28 km NW of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.7817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 135.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NW of Murghob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-14 23:21:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-04 05:01:07 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 2.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us2000d2ei Id of event.
Event Code 2000d2ei An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d2ei, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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