Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Jarm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10002k6g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002k6g. Exact location of event, depth 199.84 km, 70.4432° East, 36.5602° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/06/15 / 2015-06-19 07:12:48 / June 19, 2015 @ 7:12 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:42:48 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 199.84 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Rustāq, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 48 km SW of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.4432° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5602° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	199.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km SW of Jarm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-19 07:12:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-11 12:01:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	284	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	0.574	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us10002k6g	Id of event.
Event Code	10002k6g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002k6g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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