A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.72 km (63 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:03:32 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.9788 East, latitude 36.835 North, depth = 100.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/19 / 2019-06-26 21:33:32 / June 26, 2019 @ 9:33 pm. Unique identifier: us700045la. Ids that are associated to the event: us700045la.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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