Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Farkhar in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Event id: us20004wv9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004wv9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 00:29:25 / January 30, 2016 @ 12:29 am. Exact location, longitude 70.1989° East, latitude 36.4794° North, depth = 203.21 km. The temblor was detected at 04:59:25 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 203.21 km (126 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Jurm (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-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. 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: 32 km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.1989° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4794° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	203.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km 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	2016-01-30 00:29:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-16 03:07:46	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	0.712	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us20004wv9	Id of event.
Event Code	20004wv9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004wv9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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