A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.266 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 08:23:11 / June 2, 2024 @ 8:23 am. The temblor was detected at 08:23:11 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000mplf. Event ids that are associated: us7000mplf. Exact location of event, longitude 72.2133 East, latitude 37.6855 North, depth = 129.266 km.
Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 62 km ENE of Khorugh, Tajikistan.
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