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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Roghun in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.7609S, 69.8627WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Roghun in Tajikistan on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 06:50:04 / March 4, 2018 @ 6:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:50:04 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter). 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 69.8627° East, 38.7609° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000dbz8. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dbz8.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yovon (c. 17 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yovon, Danghara, Sovet (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 2 km SSW of Roghun, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.8627° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7609° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW of Roghun, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-04 06:50:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-04 07:39:04 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 0.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us2000dbz8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dbz8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dbz8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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