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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 12 km SSE of Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Uzgen in Kyrgyzstan on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/25 / 2025-07-21 05:38:47 / July 21, 2025 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:38:47 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000qe74. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qe74. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 73.3363° East, 40.6631° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Andijon (c. 318 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Jalal-Abad (c. 75 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Asaka (c. 56 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Uzgen (c. 40 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bazar-Korgon (c. 27 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asaka, Marhamat, Andijon (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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: 12 km SSE of Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	73.3363° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.6631° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSE of Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-21 05:38:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-21 17:34:38	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.718	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000qe74	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qe74	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qe74,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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