Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Beshrabot in Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 40.2571S, 65.3224WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Beshrabot in Uzbekistan. Exact location of earthquake, 65.3224° East, 40.2571° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:42:41 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/18 / 2018-09-29 13:42:41 / September 29, 2018 @ 1:42 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000h49v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h49v.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Navoiy (c. 129 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Navoiy Shahri (c. 125 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kogon (c. 62 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kattaqo’rg’on (c. 59 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ghijduwon (c. 41 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Oqtosh (c. 38 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kattaqo’rg’on, Kogon, Romiton.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km N of Beshrabot, Uzbekistan.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.3224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Beshrabot, Uzbekistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-29 13:42:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-29 14:55:53 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 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 3.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 us1000h49v Id of event.
Event Code 1000h49v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h49v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply