A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Osh in Kyrgyzstan. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.24 km (30 miles). Unique identifier: us10003z3r. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003z3r. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.0136 East, latitude 40.4129 North, depth = 48.24 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 20:03:25 / November 17, 2015 @ 8:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:03:25 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quvasoy, Quva, Iradan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Andijon (c. 318 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Jalal-Abad (c. 75 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Asaka (c. 56 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Uzgen (c. 40 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Quva (c. 33 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km ESE of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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