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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5506S, 70.082WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, longitude 70.082 East, latitude 36.5506 North, depth = 204.87 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g8ee. Unique identifier: us2000g8ee. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:21:45 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 204.87 km (127 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 02:51:45 / July 19, 2018 @ 2:51 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khanabad, Ārt Khwājah, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.082° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 204.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-19 02:51:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-19 03:17:16 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 0.697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000g8ee Id of event.
Event Code 2000g8ee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g8ee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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