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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Nahrin in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on April 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2113S, 68.982WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Nahrin in Afghanistan. The temblor was picked up at 02:47:14 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 68.982 East, latitude 36.2113 North, depth = 33 km. Id of earthquake: us700037gr. Event ids that are associated: us700037gr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/19 / 2019-04-16 22:17:14 / April 16, 2019 @ 10:17 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 Farkhār, Aībak, Taloqan. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Baghlān (c. 108 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Pul-e Khumrī (c. 56 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Aībak (c. 47 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 21 km NW of Nahrin, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 68.982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2113° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NW of Nahrin, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-16 22:17:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-16 23:17:24 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 312 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 1.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us700037gr Id of event.
Event Code 700037gr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700037gr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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