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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Batken in Kyrgyzstan

Posted by admin on August 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.1424S, 70.7955WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Batken in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.7955 East, latitude 40.1424 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 08:18:51 / August 5, 2020 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000b9kb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000b9kb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:18:51 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Qo‘qon (c. 187 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Khŭjand (c. 144 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Konibodom (c. 50 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Quvasoy (c. 32 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quvasoy, Khŭjand, Konsoy (min 5000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km NNW of Batken, Kyrgyzstan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.7955° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NNW of Batken, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-05 08:18:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-05 08:53:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 370 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 0.086 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 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 us6000b9kb Id of event.
Event Code 6000b9kb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b9kb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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