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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Jarm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on March 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4753S, 70.654WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 22:17:50 / March 24, 2018 @ 10:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 200.63 km (125 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:47:50 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d8qq. Id of event: us1000d8qq. Exact location of event, depth 200.63 km, 70.654° East, 36.4753° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Rustāq, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.654° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 200.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSW 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 2018-03-24 22:17:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-24 22:40:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 401 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 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000d8qq Id of event.
Event Code 1000d8qq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d8qq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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