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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Merke in Kazakhstan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Merke in Kazakhstan. The temblor was detected at 22:42:41 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pn6j. Unique identifier: us7000pn6j. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/25 / 2025-03-27 22:42:41 / March 27, 2025 @ 10:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 72.9917° East, 42.7256° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toktogul, Sosnovka, Kara-Balta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Kara-Balta (c. 62 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Talas (c. 35 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Toktogul (c. 19 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Merke (c. 15 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kulan (c. 13 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kaindy (c. 10 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Lugovoy (c. 10 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Kyrgyzstan (c. 5 509 000 pop), Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	72.9917° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.7256° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km SW of Merke, Kazakhstan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-27 22:42:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-27 23:03:45	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	2	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	87	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.111	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	24	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	us7000pn6j	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pn6j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pn6j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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