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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kulob in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.857S, 69.745WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kulob in Tajikistan. Global time and date of event 30/12/18 / 2018-12-30 10:02:35 / December 30, 2018 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000iz69. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000iz69. Exact location of earthquake, 69.745° East, 37.857° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:02:35 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Panj, Ārt Khwājah, Orzu. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Farkhor (c. 21 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Vose’ (c. 21 700 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 has struck near. 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. 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: 7 km SSW of Kulob, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.745° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.857° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSW of Kulob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-30 10:02:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-30 10:16:48 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 271 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 0.49 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us2000iz69 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iz69 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iz69, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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