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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.4288S, 70.6152WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6152 East, latitude 36.4288 North, depth = 214.41 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 07:15:01 / December 29, 2015 @ 7:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:45:01 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004a7s. Unique identifier: us10004a7s. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 214.41 km (133 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4288° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 214.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNW 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 2015-12-29 07:15:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 07:41:11 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 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us10004a7s Id of event.
Event Code 10004a7s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a7s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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