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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 22:34:50 / June 11, 2018 @ 10:34 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000enrh. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000enrh. The temblor was picked up at 03:04:50 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 71.0855° East, latitude 36.3826° North, depth = 121.6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 121.6 km (76 miles).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Jurm (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km NE of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.0855° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	121.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km NE 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	2018-06-11 22:34:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-11 22:51:33	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	298	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	0.846	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us1000enrh	Id of event.
Event Code	1000enrh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000enrh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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