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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Balkanabat in Tur kmenistan


Earthquake location 39.8237S, 54.6411WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Balkanabat in Tur kmenistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.36 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70007il3. Event ids that are associated: us70007il3. Exact location, longitude 54.6411° East, latitude 39.8237° North, depth = 15.36 km. The temblor was reported at 02:38:05 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 21:38:05 / February 4, 2020 @ 9:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Balkanabat (c. 87 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gumdag (c. 24 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gumdag, Balkanabat.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km NE of Balkanabat, Tur kmenistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 54.6411° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE of Balkanabat, Turkmenistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 21:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 22:02:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 271 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 7.609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us70007il3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007il3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007il3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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