Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kurchum in Kazakhstan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Kurchum in Kazakhstan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 84.9806° East, 48.8155° North, depth 47.753 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:15:58 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 18:15:58 / August 2, 2024 @ 6:15 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nhn0. Id of event: us6000nhn0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.753 km (30 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kurchum, Aksuat. The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Kurchum (c. 8 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Aksuat (c. 6 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 101 km ENE of Kurchum, Kazakhstan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	84.9806° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.8155° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.753 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101 km ENE of Kurchum, Kazakhstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-02 18:15:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-02 18:54:29	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	354	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	160	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	us6000nhn0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nhn0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nhn0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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