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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Staraya Pokrovka in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 42.6209S, 75.1719WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Staraya Pokrovka in Kyrgyzstan on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/17 / 2017-04-21 00:55:46 / April 21, 2017 @ 12:55 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008jfb. Unique identifier: us10008jfb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.08 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 16.08 km, 75.1719° East, 42.6209° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:55:46 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Balykchy, Georgiyevka, Bishkek. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Bishkek (c. 900 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Tokmok (c. 63 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Balykchy (c. 40 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kant (c. 20 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bystrovka (c. 10 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Georgiyevka (c. 9 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 23 km SSW of Staraya Pokrovka, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 75.1719° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SSW of Staraya Pokrovka, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-21 00:55:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-21 01:07:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 271 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 0.443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us10008jfb Id of event.
Event Code 10008jfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008jfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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