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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.4845S, 73.3282WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (17 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 03:38:05 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200067p3. Ids that are associated to the event: us200067p3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 73.3282 East, latitude 39.4845 North, depth = 17.18 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/06/16 / 2016-06-28 21:38:05 / June 28, 2016 @ 9:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 27 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.3282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2016-06-28 21:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 21:55:54 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 449 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 2.349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us200067p3 Id of event.
Event Code 200067p3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200067p3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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