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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.4077S, 73.5399WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km SE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (27 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.02 km (33 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:50:10 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 53.02 km, 73.5399° East, 39.4077° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200066y1. Unique identifier: us200066y1. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 12:50:10 / June 26, 2016 @ 12:50 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 43 km SE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.5399° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4077° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SE 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 12:50:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 12:17:01 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 1.345 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 91 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 us200066y1 Id of event.
Event Code 200066y1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066y1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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