A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kosonsoy in Uzbekistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:16:23 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 41.49 km, 71.5044° East, 41.169° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 16:16:23 / May 14, 2020 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 41.49 km (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009g2j. Unique identifier: us70009g2j.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fergana, Quva, Oltiariq (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Namangan (c. 432 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Andijon (c. 318 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Qo‘qon (c. 187 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Chust Shahri (c. 65 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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