A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 219.36 km (136 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005zp9. Event ids that are associated: us20005zp9. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:09:55 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 17:39:55 / June 1, 2016 @ 5:39 pm. Exact location of event, depth 219.36 km, 70.8043° East, 36.5947° North.
The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farkhār, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km S of Jarm, Afghanistan.
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