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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Taloqan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.7629S, 69.7859WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Taloqan in Afghanistan on Monday. The temblor was detected at 08:50:29 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 69.7859° East, 36.7629° North, depth 300.83 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 300.83 km (187 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 04:20:29 / November 19, 2018 @ 4:20 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000htsv. Id of event: us1000htsv.

Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Farkhor (c. 21 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhor, Kunduz (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight 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 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. 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: 22 km E of Taloqan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.7859° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 300.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E of Taloqan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-19 04:20:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-19 04:56:29 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 1.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000htsv Id of event.
Event Code 1000htsv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000htsv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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