Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Karakenja in Tajikistan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan on Monday. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:14:03 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us700047un. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700047un. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 71.6055° East, latitude 39.3213° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 01:14:03 / July 1, 2019 @ 1:14 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shohimardon, Khaydarkan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Khaydarkan (c. 11 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NE of Karakenja, Tajikistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.6055° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NE of Karakenja, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-01 01:14:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-01 01:40:33	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	385	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	0.223	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us700047un	Id of event.
Event Code	700047un	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700047un,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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