Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Khorugh in Tajikistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Khorugh in Tajikistan on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000my8q. Unique identifier: us7000my8q. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.672 km (74 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/24 / 2024-07-10 08:52:41 / July 10, 2024 @ 8:52 am. The temblor was picked up at 08:52:41 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.3583 East, latitude 37.1663 North, depth = 118.672 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Jurm (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 39 km SSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.3583° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118.672 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km SSW 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	2024-07-10 08:52:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-17 08:30:15	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	298	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.334	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us7000my8q	Id of event.
Event Code	7000my8q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000my8q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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