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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Naryn in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 41.7164S, 75.4389WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Naryn in Kyrgyzstan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.57 km (18 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 13:10:28 / January 21, 2020 @ 1:10 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 75.4389° East, 41.7164° North, depth 28.57 km. Event id: us60007c36. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007c36. The temblor was picked up at 19:10:28 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was At-Bashi, Naryn. Close country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Naryn (c. 52 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from At-Bashi (c. 15 200 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 56 km NW of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 75.4389° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7164° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NW of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-21 13:10:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 14:18:30 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 369 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 0.861 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us60007c36 Id of event.
Event Code 60007c36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007c36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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