Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hukumati Dahanah-ye Ghori in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hukumati Dahanah-ye Ghori in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 68.4557° East, latitude 35.7107° North, depth = 8.4 km. The temblor was detected at 00:57:13 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.4 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 20:27:13 / June 20, 2016 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us200065ky. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065ky.

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Baghlān (c. 108 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pul-e Khumrī (c. 56 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aībak (c. 47 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aībak, Nahrīn, Baghlān.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 21 km S of Hukumati Dahanah-ye Ghori, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	68.4557° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7107° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km S of Hukumati Dahanah-ye Ghori, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-20 20:27:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-20 22:25:09	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	298	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	1.262	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us200065ky	Id of event.
Event Code	200065ky	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200065ky,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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