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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 45 km SE of Shohimardon, Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 39.7142S, 72.2018WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Shohimardon in Uzbekistan on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 72.2018° East, latitude 39.7142° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005z5y. Id of event: us10005z5y. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:25:19 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 11:25:19 / June 26, 2016 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Asaka (c. 56 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Quva (c. 33 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Quvasoy (c. 32 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kyzyl-Kyya (c. 32 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asaka, Osh, Hamza (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SE of Shohimardon, Uzbekistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 72.2018° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SE of Shohimardon, Uzbekistan 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 11:25:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 06:27:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 1.118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us10005z5y Id of event.
Event Code 10005z5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005z5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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