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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.2105S, 70.6783WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:37:19 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.6783 East, latitude 36.2105 North, depth = 114.94 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/17 / 2017-03-13 02:07:19 / March 13, 2017 @ 2:07 am. Id of earthquake: us100088kv. Event ids that are associated: us100088kv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.94 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Pārūn, Farkhār. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6783° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NNW 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 2017-03-13 02:07:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-13 02:43:09 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 312 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 0.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us100088kv Id of event.
Event Code 100088kv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088kv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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