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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 29 km WSW of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Saturday. Event id: us600053at. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053at. Exact location, longitude 71.5152° East, latitude 37.1606° North, depth = 106.05 km. The temblor was reported at 11:43:11 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 106.05 km (66 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 06:43:11 / August 10, 2019 @ 6:43 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Khandūd, Jurm (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 29 km WSW of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.5152° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km WSW of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-10 06:43:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-10 06:59:22	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	416	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	0.386	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 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	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us600053at	Id of event.
Event Code	600053at	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600053at,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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