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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5044S, 70.2653WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 196.55 km (122 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:37:37 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/15 / 2015-12-11 00:07:37 / December 11, 2015 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 70.2653° East, 36.5044° North, depth 196.55 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004gan. Unique identifier: us20004gan.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Taloqan.

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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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 ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2653° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5044° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 196.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-11 00:07:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-11 01:07:26 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 246 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 1.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 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 us20004gan Id of event.
Event Code 20004gan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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