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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 20 km NNW of Khaydarkan, Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 40.1035S, 71.2104WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Khaydarkan in Kyrgyzstan. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 71.2104° East, latitude 40.1035° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70004kgc. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004kgc. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 08:50:53 / July 15, 2019 @ 8:50 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:50:53 / 2:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toshbuloq, Shaydon, Quva (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Qo‘qon (c. 187 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Konibodom (c. 50 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quva (c. 33 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Quvasoy (c. 32 000 pop). Close country/countries, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 20 km NNW of Khaydarkan, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2104° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2019-07-15 08:50:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 12:10:46 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 0.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us70004kgc Id of event.
Event Code 70004kgc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004kgc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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