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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on March 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5711S, 72.4163WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Roshtqal’a in Tajikistan. The temblor was detected at 06:36:51 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008hn1. Unique identifier: us70008hn1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 01:36:51 / March 28, 2020 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 72.4163° East, latitude 37.5711° North, depth = 194.4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 194.4 km (121 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Khandūd. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 62 km NE of Roshtqal’a, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.4163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km NE 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 2020-03-28 01:36:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-28 01:54:46 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 1.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us70008hn1 Id of event.
Event Code 70008hn1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008hn1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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