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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Murghob in Tajikistan

Posted by admin on June 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2573S, 74.1554WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Murghob in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 07:36:12 / June 12, 2020 @ 7:36 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.13 km (95 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 74.1554 East, latitude 38.2573 North, depth = 152.13 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:36:12 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000aahh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aahh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murghob (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Murghob (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km ENE of Murghob, Tajikistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.1554° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km ENE of Murghob, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-12 07:36:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-12 07:54:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 2.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us6000aahh Id of event.
Event Code 6000aahh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aahh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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