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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ay2z. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ay2z. Exact location of earthquake, 70.5874° East, 36.2011° North, depth 101.25 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.25 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 17:45:33 / October 28, 2017 @ 5:45 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:15:33 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ashkāsham, Pārūn. Epicenter of the event was 102 km (63 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 25 km NW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5874° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km NW 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	2017-10-28 17:45:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-28 18:03:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	20	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	425	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	0.922	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000ay2z	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ay2z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ay2z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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