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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

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Earthquake location 36.7821S, 71.3571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.3571 East, latitude 36.7821 North, depth = 178.43 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:18:38 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/04/17 / 2017-04-04 04:48:38 / April 4, 2017 @ 4:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 178.43 km (111 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10008e7y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008e7y.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 178.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-04 04:48:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-04 04:22:28 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 354 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 0.713 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us10008e7y Id of event.
Event Code 10008e7y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008e7y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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