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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kazarman in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 41.1025S, 74.063WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kazarman in Kyrgyzstan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 12:31:07 / August 10, 2015 @ 12:31 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:31:07 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100030ry. Id of event: us100030ry. Exact location, longitude 74.063° East, latitude 41.1025° North, depth = 20.3 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Uzgen (c. 40 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Uzgen (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 33 km S of Kazarman, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 74.063° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km S of Kazarman, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-10 12:31:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-29 10:05:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 246 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.567 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 48 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 us100030ry Id of event.
Event Code 100030ry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030ry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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