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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Jarm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Saturday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:41:28 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 109.97 km (68 miles). Global time and date of event 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 00:11:28 / March 19, 2016 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005axj. Unique identifier: us20005axj. Exact location of earthquake, 70.9119° East, 36.8985° North, depth 109.97 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seventy-four 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 7 km ENE of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.9119° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8985° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	109.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km ENE of Jarm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-19 00:11:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-19 00:24:21	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	0.868	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us20005axj	Id of event.
Event Code	20005axj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005axj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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