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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.5345S, 73.3368WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (14 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 73.3368° East, 39.5345° North. The temblor was reported at 22:33:18 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 16:33:18 / June 27, 2016 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000679c. Event ids that are associated: us2000679c.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 22 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.3368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2016-06-27 16:33:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 18:31:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 246 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 2.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us2000679c Id of event.
Event Code 2000679c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000679c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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