Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Exact location, longitude 70.6549° East, latitude 36.412° North, depth = 207.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 19:43:11 / April 30, 2016 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:13:11 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 207.55 km (129 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005crc. Id of event: us10005crc.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6549° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.412° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	207.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-30 19:43:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-21 03:11:55	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	246	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	0.715	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us10005crc	Id of event.
Event Code	10005crc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005crc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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