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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Ashkasham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.6932S, 71.2837WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 189.53 km (118 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:37:48 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 71.2837° East, 36.6932° North, depth 189.53 km. Id of earthquake: us10002mft. Event ids that are associated: us10002mft. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 22:07:48 / June 29, 2015 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km W of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6932° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 189.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km W of Ashkasham, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 22:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 22:42:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 26 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.59 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 476 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10002mft Id of event.
Event Code 10002mft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Samreen

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