A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Nahrin in Afghanistan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.16 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, depth 110.16 km, 69.6909° East, 35.9654° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 22:37:10 / August 23, 2016 @ 10:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006g6t. Unique identifier: us10006g6t. The temblor was detected at 03:07:10 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khanabad, Baghlān, Pul-e Khumrī (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Baghlān (c. 108 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bāzārak (c. 65 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pul-e Khumrī (c. 56 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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