Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Khorugh in Tajikistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137.12 km (85 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 22:11:11 / August 26, 2020 @ 10:11 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:11:11 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bdgl. Unique identifier: us7000bdgl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.9018 East, latitude 37.2491 North, depth = 137.12 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Khandūd (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.9018° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2491° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km SE of Khorugh, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-26 22:11:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-26 22:46:03	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	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	2.232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us7000bdgl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bdgl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bdgl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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