A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Almaty in Kazakhstan. Global time and date of event 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 00:30:16 / September 7, 2019 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 76.8712° East, 43.1764° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:30:16 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005d4m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005d4m.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Almaty (c. 2 000 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Talghar (c. 42 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kapshagay (c. 42 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Esik (c. 33 000 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Burunday (c. 21 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kapshagay, Turgen’, Cholpon-Ata (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 was reported nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SW of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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