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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Aydarken in Kyrgyzstan


Earthquake location 39.6809S, 71.3127WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Aydarken in Kyrgyzstan. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n93c. Unique identifier: us7000n93c. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.53 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 71.3127° East, 39.6809° North, depth 3.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/08/24 / 2024-08-23 20:32:59 / August 23, 2024 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:32:59 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isfara (c. 37 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Quvasoy (c. 32 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Kyzyl-Kyya (c. 32 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Toshloq (c. 26 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Iradan (c. 26 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toshloq, Marg‘ilon, Kyzyl-Kyya.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km S of Aydarken, Kyrgyzstan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km S of Aydarken, Kyrgyzstan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-23 20:32:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-23 22:19:41 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 326 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 120 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000n93c Id of event.
Event Code 7000n93c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n93c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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