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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Karaton in Kazakhstan


Earthquake location 46.169S, 53.3055WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Karaton in Kazakhstan. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/02/25 / 2025-02-02 09:52:13 / February 2, 2025 @ 9:52 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 53.3055 East, latitude 46.169 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:52:13 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pasf. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pasf.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Qaraton (c. 8 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Qaraton (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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km SSW of Karaton, Kazakhstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 53.3055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.169° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SSW of Karaton, Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-02 09:52:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-03 09:43:44 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 271 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.204 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 91 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 us7000pasf Id of event.
Event Code 7000pasf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pasf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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