A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700090zj. Id of event: us700090zj. The temblor was reported at 16:42:17 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 70.5885° East, latitude 36.3983° North, depth = 166.17 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 12:12:17 / April 21, 2020 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 166.17 km (103 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār. Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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