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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan


Earthquake location 51.657S, 75.3374WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan. The temblor was reported at 20:27:12 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 14:27:12 / August 23, 2019 @ 2:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us700057jq. Ids that are associated to the event: us700057jq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 75.3374° East, latitude 51.657° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 7 km (5 miles) from Ekibastuz (c. 121 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayqayyng (c. 7 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Qalqaman (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Qalqaman, Mayqayyng, Ekibastuz (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 2 km WSW of Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 75.3374° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WSW of Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-23 14:27:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-31 05:52:31 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 2.27 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us700057jq Id of event.
Event Code 700057jq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057jq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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