Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 132 km ESE of Nookat, Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.6124S, 73.918WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 132 km ESE of Nookat, Kyrgyzstan (82 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000c7se. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c7se. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.78 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/20 / 2020-10-07 04:10:48 / October 7, 2020 @ 4:10 am. The temblor was reported at 04:10:48 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.918 East, latitude 39.6124 North, depth = 47.78 km.

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

Did you feel the quake?

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: 132 km ESE of Nookat, Kyrgyzstan.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.918° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6124° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132 km ESE of Nookat, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-07 04:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-30 01:48:47 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 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 1.638 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 139 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 us6000c7se Id of event.
Event Code 6000c7se An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c7se, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply