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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Shughnon in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 37.6539S, 72.0636WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Shughnon in Tajikistan. Unique identifier: us600054sq. Ids that are associated to the event: us600054sq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 22:57:19 / August 13, 2019 @ 10:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 72.0636° East, 37.6539° North, depth 135.29 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 135.29 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:57:19 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 81 km (51 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Khorugh (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.0636° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6539° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 135.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-13 22:57:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-13 23:23:14 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 259 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 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us600054sq Id of event.
Event Code 600054sq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600054sq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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