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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 77 km ESE of Lab-Sar, Afghanistan

Posted by admin on January 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6545S, 67.5629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Lab-Sar in Afghanistan. Unique identifier: us10004b1c. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004b1c. The temblor was picked up at 21:17:32 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.96 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/01/16 / 2016-01-03 16:47:32 / January 3, 2016 @ 4:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 67.5629° East, latitude 35.6545° North, depth = 19.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Aībak (c. 47 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Larkird (c. 11 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Larkird, Aībak (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km ESE of Lab-Sar, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 67.5629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km ESE of Lab-Sar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-03 16:47:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-03 18:07:00 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 259 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 1.645 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 157 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 us10004b1c Id of event.
Event Code 10004b1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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