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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0762S, 71.4527WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 02:23:08 / March 21, 2020 @ 2:23 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.8 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:23:08 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.4527 East, latitude 37.0762 North, depth = 110.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008dcz. Unique identifier: us70008dcz.

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Jurm. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 38 km WSW of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.4527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2020-03-21 02:23:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-21 02:46:18 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 284 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 2.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70008dcz Id of event.
Event Code 70008dcz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008dcz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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