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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Khaydarkan in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 40.1289S, 71.219WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Khaydarkan in Kyrgyzstan. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004lag. Unique identifier: us70004lag. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:37 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 10:45:37 / July 16, 2019 @ 10:45 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 71.219° East, 40.1289° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Qo‘qon (c. 187 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Chust Shahri (c. 65 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Konibodom (c. 50 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Quva (c. 33 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chust Shahri, Shaydon, Toshbuloq.

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

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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: 23 km NNW of Khaydarkan, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNW of Khaydarkan, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-16 10:45:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 13:53:24 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 326 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 0.787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us70004lag Id of event.
Event Code 70004lag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004lag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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