A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000dvha. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dvha. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 18:51:50 / May 1, 2018 @ 6:51 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.5034 East, latitude 36.403 North, depth = 90.75 km. The temblor was reported at 23:21:50 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90.75 km (56 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jurm, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 31 km S of Ashkasham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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