A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 205.86 km (128 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:19:44 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.2663 East, latitude 36.5122 North, depth = 205.86 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/15 / 2015-11-01 15:49:44 / November 1, 2015 @ 3:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000416w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000416w.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Taloqan. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 37 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan.
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