A 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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