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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 52 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1825S, 70.2156WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.21 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000cqdx. Event ids that are associated: us2000cqdx. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/18 / 2018-01-27 17:19:15 / January 27, 2018 @ 5:19 pm. The temblor was reported at 21:49:15 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 121.21 km, 70.2156° East, 36.1825° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Farkhār (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.2156° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km 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 2018-01-27 17:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-27 21:37:37 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 234 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 0.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us2000cqdx Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqdx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqdx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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