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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5203S, 70.1532WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/18 / 2018-08-23 22:12:20 / August 23, 2018 @ 10:12 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ggbu. Id of event: us1000ggbu. 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 218.7 km (136 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:42:20 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.1532 East, latitude 36.5203 North, depth = 218.7 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ārt Khwājah, Fayzabad, Rustāq (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1532° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5203° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 218.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ESE 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 2018-08-23 22:12:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-23 22:29:27 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 284 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 0.693 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us1000ggbu Id of event.
Event Code 1000ggbu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ggbu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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