A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan on Monday. Unique identifier: us2000jd1p. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jd1p. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 06:12:26 / February 4, 2019 @ 6:12 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:12:26 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 73.9308 East, latitude 38.4723 North, depth = 132.68 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 132.68 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob. Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 33 km N of Murghob, Tajikistan.
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