Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:50:19 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 218.97 km (136 miles). Event id: us10003jsf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003jsf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/10/15 / 2015-10-02 16:20:19 / October 2, 2015 @ 4:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.1767 East, latitude 36.5052 North, depth = 218.97 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 37 km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.1767° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5052° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	218.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km WSW 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	2015-10-02 16:20:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-02 17:05:36	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	312	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	0.784	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us10003jsf	Id of event.
Event Code	10003jsf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003jsf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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