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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sho‘rchi in Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 37.9205S, 68.1922WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Sho‘rchi in Uzbekistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/24 / 2024-06-10 03:14:52 / June 10, 2024 @ 3:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 68.1922 East, latitude 37.9205 North, depth = 10.905 km. Unique identifier: us7000mrev. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mrev. The temblor was picked up at 03:14:52 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.905 km (7 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Dushanbe (c. 679 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Denov (c. 69 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tursunzoda (c. 38 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Boysun (c. 25 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sho’rchi (c. 24 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Qarāwul (c. 24 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Qarāwul, Boysun, Yovon (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 36 km ESE of Sho‘rchi, Uzbekistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 68.1922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.905 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km ESE of Sho‘rchi, Uzbekistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-10 03:14:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-10 03:27:50 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 312 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us7000mrev Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrev An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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