Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Farkhar in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 06:35:46 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60009efn. Unique identifier: us60009efn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 02:05:46 / April 29, 2020 @ 2:05 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.04 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.996 East, latitude 36.1751 North, depth = 117.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nahrīn, Taloqan, Farkhār (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 45 km SSE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.996° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1751° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km SSE of Farkhar, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-29 02:05:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-29 02:25:50	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	271	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	1.807	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us60009efn	Id of event.
Event Code	60009efn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009efn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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