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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Almaty in Kazakhstan

Posted by admin on February 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.1316S, 76.8717WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Almaty in Kazakhstan. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:20:44 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 76.8717 East, latitude 43.1316 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/02/18 / 2018-02-02 09:20:44 / February 2, 2018 @ 9:20 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cftd. Unique identifier: us1000cftd.

The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Almaty (c. 2 000 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Talghar (c. 42 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kapshagay (c. 42 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Esik (c. 33 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Burunday (c. 21 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Energeticheskiy (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kapshagay, Turgen’, Cholpon-Ata. Close country/countries that might be effected, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SSW of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.8717° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW of Almaty, Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-02 09:20:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 22:17:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 225 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 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us1000cftd Id of event.
Event Code 1000cftd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cftd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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