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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Turgen’ in Kazakhstan

Posted by admin on January 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.2015S, 77.7514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Turgen’ in Kazakhstan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 77.7514° East, latitude 43.2015° North, depth = 29.34 km. The temblor was detected at 20:36:35 / 8:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/01/18 / 2018-01-29 14:36:35 / January 29, 2018 @ 2:36 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cqww. Id of event: us2000cqww. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.34 km (18 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Almaty (c. 2 000 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Karakol (c. 70 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Talghar (c. 42 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kapshagay (c. 42 200 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Esik (c. 33 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Burunday (c. 21 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Energeticheskiy (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karakol, Kapshagay, Cholpon-Ata. Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km SSE of Turgen’, Kazakhstan. 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 77.7514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SSE of Turgen', Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-29 14:36:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-29 15:53:14 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 0.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000cqww Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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