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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Osh in Kyrgyzstan. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 03:11:21 / March 12, 2025 @ 3:11 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:11:21 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 72.7596 East, latitude 40.5409 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000py8n. Unique identifier: us6000py8n.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chortoq, Uychi, Komsomol’skiy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Andijon (c. 318 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Osh (c. 200 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fergana (c. 164 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Marg‘ilon (c. 133 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Jalal-Abad (c. 75 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Asaka (c. 56 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Chortoq (c. 49 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.7596° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5409° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km WNW of Osh, Kyrgyzstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-12 03:11:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 03:32:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.612	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000py8n	Id of event.
Event Code	6000py8n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000py8n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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