A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.9417 East, latitude 36.4927 North, depth = 115.75 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g6sp. Unique identifier: us1000g6sp. The temblor was detected at 09:51:18 / 9:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115.75 km (72 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/18 / 2018-08-11 05:21:18 / August 11, 2018 @ 5:21 am.
The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 42 km SSE of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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