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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 37 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.4332S, 73.4604WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 37 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (23 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: us200067bp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200067bp. 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, 73.4604° East, 39.4332° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:54:40 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 21:54:40 / June 27, 2016 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 37 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.4604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 21:54:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 03:23:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 298 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 1.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us200067bp Id of event.
Event Code 200067bp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200067bp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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