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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 97 km S of Urzhar, Kazakhstan


Earthquake location 46.224S, 81.8519WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Urzhar in Kazakhstan on Monday. Unique identifier: us1000e9am. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e9am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 81.8519 East, latitude 46.224 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 13:07:29 / May 21, 2018 @ 1:07 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:07:29 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Urzhar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Urzhar (c. 14 800 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 97 km S of Urzhar, Kazakhstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 81.8519° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.224° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km S of Urzhar, Kazakhstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-21 13:07:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 13:43:35 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 0.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us1000e9am Id of event.
Event Code 1000e9am An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e9am, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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