Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 39 km SW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 39 km SW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (24 miles) on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 72.8829° East, latitude 39.5143° North, depth = 38.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/12/17 / 2017-12-30 23:24:08 / December 30, 2017 @ 11:24 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000byd0. Unique identifier: us1000byd0. The temblor was detected at 05:24:08 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 38.03 km (24 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km SW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.8829° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.5143° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km SW of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-30 23:24:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-30 23:37:52	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	312	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	1.681	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us1000byd0	Id of event.
Event Code	1000byd0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000byd0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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