A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.7448 East, latitude 36.4898 North, depth = 204.16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjg0. Id of event: us2000cjg0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 204.16 km (127 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 09:19:30 / January 14, 2018 @ 9:19 am. The temblor was detected at 13:49:30 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Ishqoshim, Farkhār. Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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