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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Jarm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on July 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6584S, 70.9983WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.9983 East, latitude 36.6584 North, depth = 253.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:04:13 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 253.4 km (157 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/15 / 2015-07-11 00:34:13 / July 11, 2015 @ 12:34 am. Id of earthquake: us20002wq3. Event ids that are associated: us20002wq3.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km SSE of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.9983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 253.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE 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 2015-07-11 00:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 03:00:50 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 259 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 0.576 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 103 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 us20002wq3 Id of event.
Event Code 20002wq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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