A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/02/21 / 2021-02-11 19:34:00 / February 11, 2021 @ 7:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 200.48 km (125 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 71.9641 East, latitude 37.3038 North, depth = 200.48 km. The temblor was reported at 19:34:00 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dgsd. Unique identifier: us6000dgsd.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Ishqoshim, Khandūd (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 41 km ESE of Khorugh, Tajikistan.
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