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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 41.6813S, 72.93WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 72.93° East, latitude 41.6813° North, depth = 33.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.9 km (21 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:00:14 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 08:00:14 / August 1, 2016 @ 8:00 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000694s. Unique identifier: us1000694s.

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Jalal-Abad (c. 75 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Uchqŭrghon Shahri (c. 33 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bazar-Korgon (c. 27 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tash-Kumyr (c. 23 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Toktogul (c. 19 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uchqŭrghon Shahri, Jalal-Abad, Bazar-Korgon.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km S of Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.93° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S of Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-01 08:00:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-01 09:14:55 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 326 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 2.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us1000694s Id of event.
Event Code 1000694s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000694s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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