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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Quvasoy in Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 40.1484S, 71.9165WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Quvasoy in Uzbekistan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007ux5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ux5. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/17 / 2017-01-23 01:40:54 / January 23, 2017 @ 1:40 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.33 km (27 miles). Exact location, longitude 71.9165° East, latitude 40.1484° North, depth = 43.33 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:40:54 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Andijon (c. 318 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Qo‘qon (c. 187 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Asaka (c. 56 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Quva (c. 33 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Qŭrghontepa, Batken, Qo‘qon.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 17 km SSW of Quvasoy, Uzbekistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.9165° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSW of Quvasoy, Uzbekistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-23 01:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-23 03:24:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 2.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us10007ux5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ux5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ux5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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