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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.5911S, 72.7362WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.52 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 48.52 km, 72.7362° East, 39.5911° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/18 / 2018-02-23 10:22:01 / February 23, 2018 @ 10:22 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:22:01 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000d6tz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d6tz.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Kyzyl-Kyya (c. 32 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Iradan (c. 26 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Shohimardon (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iradan, Shohimardon, Kyzyl-Kyya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 46 km WSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.7362° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW 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 2018-02-23 10:22:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-23 12:08:42 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 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 1.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000d6tz Id of event.
Event Code 2000d6tz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d6tz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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