Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Jarm in Afghanistan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/19 / 2019-10-14 01:11:29 / October 14, 2019 @ 1:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.6014 East, latitude 36.5254 North, depth = 203.47 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 203.47 km (126 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:41:29 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005tzl. Id of event: us70005tzl.

Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Rustāq, Ishqoshim.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6014° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5254° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	203.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-14 01:11:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-14 22:20:13	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	385	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	1.312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70005tzl	Id of event.
Event Code	70005tzl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005tzl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

70.6014° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

36.5254° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

203.47 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

43km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-10-14 01:11:29

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-10-14 22:20:13

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

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

385

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.312

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.83 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70005tzl

Id of event.

Event Code

70005tzl

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70005tzl,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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