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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1701S, 70.2511WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 14:20:56 / December 24, 2017 @ 2:20 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bvmy. Id of event: us1000bvmy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.18 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, depth 110.18 km, 70.2511° East, 36.1701° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:50:56 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jurm, Taloqan, Farkhār. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2511° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km WNW 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 2017-12-24 14:20:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 19:48:44 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 298 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 0.988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 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 us1000bvmy Id of event.
Event Code 1000bvmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bvmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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