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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Jarm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on April 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4799S, 70.5914WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:53:59 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10008hr6. Event ids that are associated: us10008hr6. Exact location of event, longitude 70.5914 East, latitude 36.4799 North, depth = 206.71 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/17 / 2017-04-15 00:23:59 / April 15, 2017 @ 12:23 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 206.71 km (128 miles).

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 47 km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.5914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 206.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SSW 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 2017-04-15 00:23:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-15 00:42:59 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 0.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us10008hr6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008hr6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008hr6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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