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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Jarm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on June 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6844S, 71.0201WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 71.0201 East, latitude 36.6844 North, depth = 226.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 226.72 km (141 miles). Event id: us2000fs4d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fs4d. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 08:47:41 / June 30, 2018 @ 8:47 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:17:41 / 1:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km SE of Jarm, 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 71.0201° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6844° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 226.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SE 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 2018-06-30 08:47:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 09:00:17 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us2000fs4d Id of event.
Event Code 2000fs4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fs4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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