Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Chayek in Kyrgyzstan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Chayek in Kyrgyzstan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.07 km (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 08:30:57 / December 7, 2015 @ 8:30 am. The temblor was reported at 14:30:57 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100044km. Event ids that are associated: us100044km. Exact location, longitude 74.6537° East, latitude 41.6814° North, depth = 26.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 112 km (70 miles) from At-Bashi (c. 15 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was At-Bashi (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SSE of Chayek, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	74.6537° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.6814° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SSE of Chayek, Kyrgyzstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-07 08:30:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-07 08:56:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4	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	466	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	1.151	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us100044km	Id of event.
Event Code	100044km	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100044km,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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