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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. The epicenter was at a depth of 122.85 km (76 miles). Id of earthquake: us70007iiq. Event ids that are associated: us70007iiq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 20:32:54 / February 4, 2020 @ 8:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:02:54 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 71.244° East, latitude 36.5934° North, depth = 122.85 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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: 27 km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.244° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5934° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	122.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-04 20:32:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-04 20:48:41	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	0.754	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us70007iiq	Id of event.
Event Code	70007iiq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007iiq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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