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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.2911S, 70.1397WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:44:13 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008p8v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008p8v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 121.36 km (75 miles). Exact location of event, depth 121.36 km, 70.1397° East, 36.2911° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/04/17 / 2017-04-28 19:14:13 / April 28, 2017 @ 7:14 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jurm, Taloqan, Farkhār. Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 40 km SE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SE of Farkhar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-28 19:14:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-19 15:49:55 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 259 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 0.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10008p8v Id of event.
Event Code 10008p8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008p8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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