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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Norak in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.474S, 69.51WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Norak in Tajikistan on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 01:04:44 / April 16, 2020 @ 1:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 69.51° East, latitude 38.474° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 06:04:44 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009anm. Id of event: us60009anm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abdurahmoni Jomí, Hisor, Khodzha-Maston (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Dushanbe (c. 679 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hisor (c. 24 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Boshkengash (c. 23 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 18 km ENE of Norak, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.51° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.474° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ENE of Norak, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-16 01:04:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-26 21:40:02 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 246 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 1.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us60009anm Id of event.
Event Code 60009anm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009anm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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