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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5093S, 70.2258WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 216.03 km (134 miles). Exact location of event, depth 216.03 km, 70.2258° East, 36.5093° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c5hi. Id of event: us2000c5hi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/12/17 / 2017-12-18 00:27:41 / December 18, 2017 @ 12:27 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:57:41 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Jurm (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 33 km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 216.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ESE 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 2017-12-18 00:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-18 02:00:02 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 246 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 0.676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us2000c5hi Id of event.
Event Code 2000c5hi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c5hi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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