Information about the earthquake: mag of light. 4.7 earthquake

Updated: Sep 7, 2021 22:52 GMT – Refresh

Earthquake of slight magnitude 4.7 at 58 km depth

September 7 13:43 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 9 minutes.
Sep 7 5:58 PM: Depth of the hypocenter recalculated from 10.0 to 58.0 km (from 6.2 to 36 mi). Epicenter location corrected 3.4 km (2.1 mi) to the NNW.

Updated Tue Sep 7, 2021, 13:48

Moderate magnitude earthquake 4.7 – 61 km west of Murghab, Tajikistan

4.7 earthquake Sep 7 18:34 (GMT +5)

The German Geoscience Research Center (GFZ) reported a magnitude 4.7 earthquake in Tajikistan near Murghab in Gorno-Badakhshan just 14 minutes ago. The earthquake struck in the early evening on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 6:34 p.m. local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The exact magnitude, epicenter and depth of the quake could be revised in the coming hours or minutes, as seismologists review the data and refine their calculations, or when other agencies release their report.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the Indian National Seismological Center (NCS) that listed the quake as a magnitude 4.6. A third agency, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), reported the same 4.7 magnitude earthquake.
Based on preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused significant damage, but was likely felt by many as a slight vibration in the epicenter area.
Weak tremors could have been felt in Murghab (10,800 inhabitants) located 61 km from the epicenter.
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Date and time: Sep 7, 2021 13:34:14 UTC –
Local time at epicenter: Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021 6:34 pm (GMT +5)
Magnitude: 4.7

Depth: 58.0 km
Latitude / longitude of epicenter: 38.1 ° N / 73.27 ° E↗ (Gorno-Badakhchan, Tajikistan)
Antipode: 38.1 ° S / 106.73 ° W↗

Nearby towns and villages:
61 km (38 mi) west of Murghab (pop: 10,800) -> Watch the earthquakes nearby!
212 km (132 mi) northeast of Ishqoshim (Ishkoshim) (pop: 26,000) -> See earthquakes nearby!
273 km (170 mi) south of Osh (Kyrgyzstan) (pop: 200,000) -> See earthquakes nearby!
281 km (174 mi) WW of Kashgar (Xinjiang, China) (pop: 274,700) -> See nearby earthquakes!
284 km (177 mi) to SSE of Fargona (Fergana, Uzbekistan) (pop: 164,300) -> See nearby earthquakes!
306 km (190 mi) east of Kŭlob (Khatlon) (pop: 78,800) -> Observe the earthquakes nearby!
395 km (245 mi) east of Dushanbe (pop: 679,400) -> Observe the earthquakes nearby!
397 km (247 mi) southeast of Khojent (Sughd) (pop: 144,900) -> See nearby earthquakes!
494 km (307 mi) southeast of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (pop: 1,978,000) -> See nearby earthquakes!
541 km (336 mi) northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan) (pop: 3,043,500) -> Observe the earthquakes nearby!

Weather at the epicenter at the time of the earthquake:
Clouds covered

3.3 ° C (38 F), humidity: 44%, wind: 3 m / s (5 kts) from ENE

Main data source: GFZ (German Geoscience Research Center)

Estimated energy released: 7.1 x 10¹¹ joules (197 megawatt hours, equivalent to 169 tonnes of TNT) More info

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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

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Mag.	Depth	Site	Source
4.7	58 km	Tajikistan-Xinjiang border region	GFZ
4.7	49 km	TAJIKISTAN	EMSC
4.6	10 km	Tajikistan: 297km ENE from Fayzabad, Afghanistan	SNC
4.7	38 km	69 km on the west of Murghob, Tajikistan	USGS
5.1	29 km	Tajikistan: Hindu Kush and Pamir region	KNDC

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