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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Jarm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/12/16 / 2016-12-01 06:46:34 / December 1, 2016 @ 6:46 am. Exact location of event, depth 229.28 km, 71.1347° East, 36.7113° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 229.28 km (142 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dzz. Id of event: us10007dzz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:16:34 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km ESE of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.1347° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7113° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	229.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ESE of Jarm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-01 06:46:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-01 07:21:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	326	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	0.609	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us10007dzz	Id of event.
Event Code	10007dzz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007dzz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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