A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Monday. Id of earthquake: us70004805. Event ids that are associated: us70004805. 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: 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 13:10:20 / July 1, 2019 @ 1:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:40:20 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 98.86 km (61 miles). Exact location, longitude 71.1428° East, latitude 36.7971° North, depth = 98.86 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim (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 61 km (38 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 28 km (18 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 one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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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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: 28 km ESE of Jarm, Afghanistan.
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