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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 47 km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.3302S, 73.0409WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 47 km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (29 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:29:10 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.81 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 18:29:10 / August 19, 2016 @ 6:29 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10006f7v. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006f7v. Exact location of event, longitude 73.0409 East, latitude 39.3302 North, depth = 47.81 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.0409° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-19 18:29:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-19 20:45:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 2.099 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 172 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 us10006f7v Id of event.
Event Code 10006f7v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f7v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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