A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143.89 km (89 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100062ik. Id of event: us100062ik. Global time and date of event 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 06:51:26 / July 11, 2016 @ 6:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:21:26 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.4307 East, latitude 36.3893 North, depth = 143.89 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Fayzabad, Jurm (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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