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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Leninpol’ in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 42.1947S, 71.8599WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Leninpol’ in Kyrgyzstan. Exact location, longitude 71.8599° East, latitude 42.1947° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:07:15 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10008spb. Event ids that are associated: us10008spb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/17 / 2017-05-16 09:07:15 / May 16, 2017 @ 9:07 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toktogul, Sarykemer, Taraz. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Taraz (c. 358 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Talas (c. 35 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Toktogul (c. 19 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Sarykemer (c. 15 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km S of Leninpol’, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.8599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.1947° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km S of Leninpol', Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-16 09:07:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-16 09:37:54 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 326 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 1.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10008spb Id of event.
Event Code 10008spb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008spb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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