A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.5 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:21:56 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ie3. Unique identifier: us20005ie3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 08:51:56 / April 15, 2016 @ 8:51 am. Exact location of event, depth 110.5 km, 70.1956° East, 36.1748° North.
The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Farkhār (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 53 km SE of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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