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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 27 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.0887S, 70.4743WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 70.4743 East, latitude 36.0887 North, depth = 106.04 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100030cd. Unique identifier: us100030cd. Global time and date of event 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 22:00:17 / August 7, 2015 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.04 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:30:17 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jurm, Pārūn, Farkhār. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4743° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-07 22:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 22:16:45 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 298 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 1.038 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 82 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 us100030cd Id of event.
Event Code 100030cd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030cd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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