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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Karakenja in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.2854S, 71.5754WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan. Exact location of earthquake, 71.5754° East, 39.2854° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 08:45:20 / July 16, 2020 @ 8:45 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000apj1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000apj1. The temblor was detected at 08:45:20 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shohimardon, Khaydarkan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Khaydarkan (c. 11 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen 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: 7 km NE of Karakenja, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.5754° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NE of Karakenja, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-16 08:45:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-22 07:59:31 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 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 0.967 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000apj1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000apj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000apj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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