Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sarikhosor in Tajikistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Sarikhosor in Tajikistan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/24 / 2024-09-03 06:09:46 / September 3, 2024 @ 6:09 am. The temblor was reported at 06:09:46 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000npfm. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000npfm. Exact location of earthquake, 70.0248° East, 38.5739° North, depth 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vose’ (c. 21 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Yovon (c. 17 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vose’, Yovon, Vahdat (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 17 km ENE of Sarikhosor, Tajikistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.0248° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of Sarikhosor, Tajikistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-03 06:09:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 08:01:00	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us6000npfm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000npfm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000npfm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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