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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Jarm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 195.5 km (121 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 13:52:40 / October 7, 2018 @ 1:52 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 70.5523° East, latitude 36.5236° North, depth = 195.5 km. Unique identifier: us1000h8et. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h8et. The temblor was picked up at 18:22:40 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishqoshim, Taloqan, Rustāq (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 62 km (39 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 45 km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5523° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5236° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	195.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km SSW 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	2018-10-07 13:52:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-07 14:07:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	370	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	0.601	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000h8et	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h8et	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000h8et,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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