A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The epicenter was at a depth of 115.67 km (72 miles). Global time and date of event 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 06:16:12 / May 1, 2016 @ 6:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 70.746° East, latitude 36.4178° North, depth = 115.67 km. Id of earthquake: us10005cth. Event ids that are associated: us10005cth. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:46:12 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishqoshim, Farkhār, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km N of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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