A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 15:10:18 / February 21, 2018 @ 3:10 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:40:18 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d5vt. Unique identifier: us2000d5vt. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 186.8 km (116 miles). Exact location, longitude 71.3415° East, latitude 36.776° North, depth = 186.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km WNW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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