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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1063S, 70.8458WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.01 km (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 70.8458° East, latitude 36.1063° North, depth = 109.01 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006d6v. Id of event: us70006d6v. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 14:44:58 / November 26, 2019 @ 2:44 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:14:58 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Jurm, Pārūn (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NE of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.8458° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE 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 2019-11-26 14:44:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 15:21:39 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 284 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us70006d6v Id of event.
Event Code 70006d6v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d6v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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