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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Jalal-Abad in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 41.1585S, 73.4233WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Jalal-Abad in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 22:09:18 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 22.01 km, 73.4233° East, 41.1585° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003m7l. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003m7l. Global time and date of event 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 16:09:18 / September 20, 2015 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.01 km (14 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khŭjaobod, Toktogul, Osh. The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Jalal-Abad (c. 75 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Uzgen (c. 40 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bazar-Korgon (c. 27 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Qŭrghontepa (c. 25 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Toktogul (c. 19 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kara Suu (c. 17 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km NE of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.4233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NE of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-20 16:09:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 19:20:10 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 312 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 0.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us20003m7l Id of event.
Event Code 20003m7l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003m7l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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