A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan. Unique identifier: us2000ja4w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ja4w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 104.43 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 71.2987° East, latitude 37.1009° North, depth = 104.43 km. The temblor was reported at 23:40:19 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 19:10:19 / January 29, 2019 @ 7:10 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Ashkāsham. Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 48 km SSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan.
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