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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Jarm in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.8375S, 71.0121WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Exact location, longitude 71.0121° East, latitude 36.8375° North, depth = 94.18 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 94.18 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/11/16 / 2016-11-27 10:21:11 / November 27, 2016 @ 10:21 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007cqe. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007cqe. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:51:11 / 2:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham. Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km E of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data 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 71.0121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E 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 2016-11-27 10:21:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 08:42:38 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 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 0.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10007cqe Id of event.
Event Code 10007cqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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