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Light earthquake 4 mag, 45 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5151S, 70.356WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 21:03:01 / July 6, 2016 @ 9:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 70.356° East, 36.5151° North, depth 204.44 km. The temblor was reported at 01:33:01 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100061ft. Event ids that are associated: us100061ft. The epicenter was at a depth of 204.44 km (127 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 204.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-06 21:03:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-22 23:05:48 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 1.454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us100061ft Id of event.
Event Code 100061ft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061ft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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