A 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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