Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sary-Tash in Kyrgyzstan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan (14 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000dz4n. Event ids that are associated: us1000dz4n. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.05 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:17:21 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 03:17:21 / May 6, 2018 @ 3:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude 73.3227 East, latitude 39.5244 North, depth = 24.05 km.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km SSE of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	73.3227° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.5244° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km SSE 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	2018-05-06 03:17:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-06 04:11:48	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	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	1.175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dz4n	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dz4n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dz4n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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