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Light earthquake 4 mag, 44 km NNW of Gazli, Uzbekistan


Earthquake location 40.5179S, 63.307WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Gazli in Uzbekistan. Exact location, longitude 63.307° East, latitude 40.5179° North, depth = 12.457 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:43:08 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjur. Unique identifier: us6000pjur. Global time and date of event 14/01/25 / 2025-01-14 00:43:08 / January 14, 2025 @ 12:43 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.457 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Gazli (c. 11 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gazli (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 44 km NNW of Gazli, Uzbekistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 63.307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.457 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km NNW of Gazli, Uzbekistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-14 00:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-15 04:04:42 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 246 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000pjur Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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