Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003t1g. Id of event: us70003t1g. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:52:13 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 105.91 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/19 / 2019-05-30 05:22:13 / May 30, 2019 @ 5:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, 70.8454° East, 36.0554° North, depth 105.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Jurm, Pārūn (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 7 km ENE of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.8454° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0554° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	105.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km ENE 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	2019-05-30 05:22:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-30 05:39:50	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	1.61	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us70003t1g	Id of event.
Event Code	70003t1g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003t1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

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