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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Karakenja in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 39.2956S, 71.7909WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Karakenja in Tajikistan. Global time and date of event 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 08:33:03 / November 23, 2024 @ 8:33 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 71.7909° East, 39.2956° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: usd00125in. Ids that are associated to the event: usd00125in. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:33:03 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). 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 Kyzyl-Kyya, Khaydarkan, Shohimardon (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) from Kyzyl-Kyya (c. 32 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Khaydarkan (c. 11 900 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 23 km ENE of Karakenja, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.7909° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km ENE of Karakenja, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-23 08:33:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-23 08:59:58 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 5.997 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 111 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 usd00125in Id of event.
Event Code d00125in An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd00125in, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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