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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 42 km W of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 35.9883S, 70.3039WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Event id: us1000jaui. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jaui. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/03/19 / 2019-03-05 15:26:45 / March 5, 2019 @ 3:26 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.05 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 70.3039° East, latitude 35.9883° North, depth = 120.05 km. The temblor was reported at 19:56:45 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Farkhār (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 42 km W of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3039° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km W of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-05 15:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-05 16:03:44 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 1.774 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us1000jaui Id of event.
Event Code 1000jaui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jaui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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