Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Jarm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:12:39 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 15:42:39 / December 24, 2017 @ 3:42 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 166.58 km (104 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000bvp8. Event ids that are associated: us1000bvp8. Exact location of earthquake, 70.8351° East, 36.5516° North, depth 166.58 km.

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farkhār, Ishqoshim, Fayzabad. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 34 km S of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.8351° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5516° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	166.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km S of Jarm, 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 15:42:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-26 20:56:31	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	326	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	0.609	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	45	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	us1000bvp8	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bvp8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bvp8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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