Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on November 24, 2017 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:55:11 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.86 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/11/17 / 2017-11-24 19:25:11 / November 24, 2017 @ 7:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 70.7041 East, latitude 36.3036 North, depth = 117.86 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bu56. Id of event: us2000bu56.

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ashkāsham, Farkhār.

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 five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel anything?

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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.7041° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3036° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NNW 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	2017-11-24 19:25:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-24 19:46:18	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	284	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	0.826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us2000bu56	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bu56	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bu56,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information