Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Gumdag in Tur kmenistan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Gumdag in Tur kmenistan. Unique identifier: us20008hsv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008hsv. Exact location of event, longitude 54.7381 East, latitude 39.3638 North, depth = 10 km. 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). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/17 / 2017-02-05 15:59:08 / February 5, 2017 @ 3:59 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:59:08 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gazanjyk, Balkanabat, Gumdag (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Balkanabat (c. 87 800 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Gumdag (c. 24 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gazanjyk (c. 21 100 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NE of Gumdag, Tur kmenistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	54.7381° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3638° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km NE 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 15:59:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-05 16:18:25	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	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	7.742	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us20008hsv	Id of event.
Event Code	20008hsv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008hsv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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