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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Karakul in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on December 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.1005S, 74.7699WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 105 km E of Karakul, Tajikistan (65 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 74.7699 East, latitude 39.1005 North, depth = 8.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:08:11 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivaw. Id of event: us2000ivaw. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 11:08:11 / December 20, 2018 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.01 km (5 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 105 km E of Karakul, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.7699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km E of Karakul, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 11:08:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 11:23:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 400 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 2.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ivaw Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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