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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1657S, 70.6392WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6392 East, latitude 36.1657 North, depth = 104.28 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007evb. Id of event: us10007evb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 104.28 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:43:26 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 01:13:26 / December 5, 2016 @ 1:13 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Farkhār, Jurm. Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Close 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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km NW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6392° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-05 01:13:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-14 00:40:46 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 284 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 0.959 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us10007evb Id of event.
Event Code 10007evb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007evb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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