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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tajikistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Tajikistan kilometers (0 miles) from Tajikistan. The temblor was picked up at 19:00:23 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 19:00:23 / September 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000hg0m. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hg0m. Exact location, longitude 70.5494° East, latitude 38.4726° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sovet (c. 8 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sovet, Kŭlob, Obigarm.

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 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: Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5494° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4726° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-17 19:00:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-17 19:35:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	369	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	0.557	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us2000hg0m	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hg0m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hg0m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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