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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Jarm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Id of earthquake: us1000hfpi. Event ids that are associated: us1000hfpi. Exact location of earthquake, 70.5465° East, 36.5261° North, depth 204.56 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 17:19:19 / October 22, 2018 @ 5:19 pm. The temblor was detected at 21:49:19 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 204.56 km (127 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taloqan, Rustāq, Ashkāsham. Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km SW of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5465° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5261° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	204.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km SW 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	2018-10-22 17:19:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-22 18:24:45	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	0.598	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us1000hfpi	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hfpi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hfpi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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