Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 29 km SSE of Gharm, Tajikistan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan. Id of earthquake: us60007iyb. Event ids that are associated: us60007iyb. The temblor was picked up at 14:10:46 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 09:10:46 / January 29, 2020 @ 9:10 am. Exact location of event, longitude 70.5587 East, latitude 38.8107 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm, Roghun.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km SSE of Gharm, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5587° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8107° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SSE of Gharm, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-29 09:10:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-29 09:25:02	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	432	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	1.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	us60007iyb	Id of event.
Event Code	60007iyb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007iyb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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