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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.4518S, 73.3842WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 32 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (20 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095da. Id of event: us100095da. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 21:45:31 / June 29, 2017 @ 9:45 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 73.3842 East, latitude 39.4518 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:45:31 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-five 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.3842° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSE 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 2017-06-29 21:45:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-29 22:12:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 259 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 1.223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100095da Id of event.
Event Code 100095da An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095da, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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