Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Khorugh in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km NE of Khorugh, Tajikistan (62 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: us6000mus3. Event ids that are associated: us6000mus3. 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: 29/04/24 / 2024-04-29 01:13:35 / April 29, 2024 @ 1:13 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:13:35 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 72.4957 East, latitude 38.0039 North, depth = 121.644 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.644 km (76 miles).

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

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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: 100 km NE of Khorugh, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.4957° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0039° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	121.644 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	100 km NE 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	2024-04-29 01:13:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-08 02:16:28	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.569	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us6000mus3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mus3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mus3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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