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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Muminobod in Tajikistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Muminobod in Tajikistan on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 70.519° East, 38.4464° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/18 / 2018-10-11 18:27:03 / October 11, 2018 @ 6:27 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:27:03 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000har5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000har5.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sovet, Kŭlob, Obigarm (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sovet (c. 8 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop).

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 nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km NE of Muminobod, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.519° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4464° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km NE of Muminobod, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-11 18:27:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-11 21:15:35	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	312	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	0.575	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us1000har5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000har5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000har5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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