A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ayagoz in Kazakhstan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 21:32:44 / March 15, 2016 @ 9:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 03:32:44 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005a19. Id of event: us20005a19. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 80.4233 East, latitude 48.0187 North, depth = 15.19 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.19 km (9 miles).
Event epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Ayagoz (c. 33 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ayagoz (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNW of Ayagoz, Kazakhstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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