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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan

Posted by admin on September 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6584S, 70.6855WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan kilometers (0 miles) from Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005fas. Unique identifier: us70005fas. The temblor was picked up at 09:22:32 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 70.6855° East, latitude 36.6584° North, depth = 258.79 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 258.79 km (161 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/09/19 / 2019-09-12 09:22:32 / September 12, 2019 @ 9:22 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 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 six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6855° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 258.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-12 09:22:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-12 09:37:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 1.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us70005fas Id of event.
Event Code 70005fas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005fas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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