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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 9 km E of Nurota, Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 40.5742S, 65.799WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Nurota in Uzbekistan on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 19:59:04 / August 19, 2020 @ 7:59 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000bd4d. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bd4d. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 65.799° East, 40.5742° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:59:04 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishtixon, Kattaqo’rg’on, Oqtosh. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Navoiy (c. 129 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Navoiy Shahri (c. 125 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kattaqo’rg’on (c. 59 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Oqtosh (c. 38 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Nurota (c. 29 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yangirabot (c. 25 000 pop).

Every 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km E of Nurota, Uzbekistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 65.799° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5742° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km E of Nurota, Uzbekistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-19 19:59:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 19:47:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 3.871 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000bd4d Id of event.
Event Code 7000bd4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bd4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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