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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Jarm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 18:41:26 / May 15, 2016 @ 6:41 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:11:26 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005hl0. Event ids that are associated: us10005hl0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.798 East, latitude 36.5136 North, depth = 181.74 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 181.74 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farkhār, Ishqoshim, Fayzabad. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km S of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.798° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5136° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	181.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km S 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	2016-05-15 18:41:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-15 18:58:06	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	326	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	0.636	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us10005hl0	Id of event.
Event Code	10005hl0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005hl0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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