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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Saryozek in Kazakhstan


Earthquake location 44.0214S, 77.9059WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Saryozek in Kazakhstan on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 17.31 km, 77.9059° East, 44.0214° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 17:29:00 / July 26, 2018 @ 5:29 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:29:00 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.31 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000gejz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gejz.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Esik, Turgen’, Kapshagay (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Kapshagay (c. 42 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Esik (c. 33 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Saryözek (c. 13 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Turgen’ (c. 13 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 37 km S of Saryozek, Kazakhstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.9059° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0214° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of Saryozek, Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-26 17:29:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 06:31:26 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 2.6 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 200 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 1.563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000gejz Id of event.
Event Code 2000gejz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gejz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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