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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 8 km ESE of Roghun, Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.7406S, 69.9547WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Roghun in Tajikistan. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:54:12 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 22:54:12 / March 29, 2018 @ 10:54 pm. Event id: us1000db5t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000db5t. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.9547 East, latitude 38.7406 North, depth = 3.62 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.62 km (2 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vose’, Dushanbe, Boshkengash (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Dushanbe (c. 679 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Boshkengash (c. 23 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Vose’ (c. 21 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yovon (c. 17 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of Roghun, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.9547° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE 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 2018-03-29 22:54:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-29 23:20:27 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 6.66 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 0.382 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us1000db5t Id of event.
Event Code 1000db5t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000db5t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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