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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.4667S, 73.1618WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (18 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:12:08 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20006725. Event ids that are associated: us20006725. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 23:12:08 / June 26, 2016 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 73.1618 East, latitude 39.4667 North, depth = 32.65 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.65 km (20 miles).

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 ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km SSW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.1618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSW 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 2016-06-26 23:12:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 23:30:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us20006725 Id of event.
Event Code 20006725 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006725, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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