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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 32 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.474S, 73.4257WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 32 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (20 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005gku. Unique identifier: us20005gku. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.4257 East, latitude 39.474 North, depth = 23.31 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.31 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 16:19:31 / April 9, 2016 @ 4:19 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:19:31 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.4257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.474° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-09 16:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 16:33:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 340 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 2.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20005gku Id of event.
Event Code 20005gku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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