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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 11 km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.4134 East, latitude 36.6512 North, depth = 240.6 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 240.6 km (150 miles). Id of earthquake: us20005b9i. Event ids that are associated: us20005b9i. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:52:55 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 18:22:55 / March 20, 2016 @ 6:22 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Khandūd, Jurm. Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

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 six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.4134° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6512° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	240.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-20 18:22:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-20 20:01:59	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	284	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	0.821	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	152	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	us20005b9i	Id of event.
Event Code	20005b9i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005b9i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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