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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Gharm in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.7023S, 70.3378WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Gharm in Tajikistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us700090bj. Ids that are associated to the event: us700090bj. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 08:16:14 / April 20, 2020 @ 8:16 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:16:14 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.3378 East, latitude 38.7023 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Norak, Mŭ’minobod, Obigarm (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Rasht (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Obigarm (c. 10 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Roghun (c. 7 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Novobod (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 36 km S of Gharm, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km S 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 2020-04-20 08:16:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-20 11:14:53 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 312 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 1.382 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us700090bj Id of event.
Event Code 700090bj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700090bj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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