Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Gumdag in Tur kmenistan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Gumdag in Tur kmenistan on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/17 / 2017-02-05 13:46:25 / February 5, 2017 @ 1:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 54.8341 East, latitude 39.2712 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us20008hsc. Event ids that are associated: us20008hsc. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:46:25 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gazanjyk, Balkanabat, Gumdag. Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Balkanabat (c. 87 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Gumdag (c. 24 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Gazanjyk (c. 21 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km ENE of Gumdag, Tur kmenistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	54.8341° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2712° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ENE of Gumdag, Turkmenistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-05 13:46:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-05 14:05:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	416	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	7.83	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us20008hsc	Id of event.
Event Code	20008hsc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008hsc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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