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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tagab in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on June 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7972S, 69.7106WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tagab in Afghanistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.9 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 69.7106 East, latitude 34.7972 North, depth = 54.9 km. Event id: us20009p03. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009p03. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:43:18 / 1:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/17 / 2017-06-22 09:13:18 / June 22, 2017 @ 9:13 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maydanshakhr, Jalālābād, Paghmān. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Kabul (c. 3 043 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bāzārak (c. 65 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Charikar (c. 53 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Paghmān (c. 49 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jabal os Saraj (c. 15 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 8 km SE of Tagab, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.7106° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE of Tagab, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-22 09:13:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-22 22:12:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 313 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 3.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us20009p03 Id of event.
Event Code 20009p03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009p03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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