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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Maidan Shahr in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on April 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.4187S, 68.8901WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Maidan Shahr in Afghanistan on Friday. Id of earthquake: us2000dvxn. Event ids that are associated: us2000dvxn. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:06:56 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 3.4 km, 68.8901° East, 34.4187° North. Global time and date of event 06/04/18 / 2018-04-06 16:36:56 / April 6, 2018 @ 4:36 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.4 km (2 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charikar, Barakī Barak (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Kabul (c. 3 043 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charikar (c. 53 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Paghmān (c. 49 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Barakī Barak (c. 22 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Pul-e ‘Alam (c. 13 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NE of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 68.8901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NE of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-06 16:36:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-07 06:54:49 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 138 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 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000dvxn Id of event.
Event Code 2000dvxn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dvxn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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