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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Serdar in Tur kmenistan


Earthquake location 38.2089S, 56.0558WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Serdar in Tur kmenistan on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 56.0558 East, latitude 38.2089 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:55 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c1ix. Unique identifier: us6000c1ix. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 05:46:55 / September 26, 2020 @ 5:46 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalāleh, Serdar (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Kalāleh (c. 33 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Serdar (c. 12 000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km SSW of Serdar, Tur kmenistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.0558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2089° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 km SSW of Serdar, Turkmenistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-26 05:46:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-26 06:04:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 416 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 6.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000c1ix Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1ix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c1ix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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