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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1201S, 70.4171WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:12:16 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70004lzx. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004lzx. Global time and date of event 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 02:42:16 / July 17, 2019 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 70.4171° East, latitude 36.1201° North, depth = 171.16 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.16 km (106 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km WNW 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 2019-07-17 02:42:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-29 03:07:24 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 246 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 1.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70004lzx Id of event.
Event Code 70004lzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004lzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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