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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Almaty in Kazakhstan


Earthquake location 43.1764S, 76.8712WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 76.8712° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW 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 2019-09-07 00:30:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-07 05:01:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 148 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 1.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005d4m Id of event.
Event Code 70005d4m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005d4m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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