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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Maidan Shahr in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Maidan Shahr in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/20 / 2020-05-18 08:26:07 / May 18, 2020 @ 8:26 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 68.9651 East, latitude 34.4585 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us70009k2j. Event ids that are associated: us70009k2j. The temblor was reported at 12:56:07 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Kabul (c. 3 043 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charikar (c. 53 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Paghmān (c. 49 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Barakī Barak (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Jabal os Saraj (c. 15 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pul-e ‘Alam (c. 13 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jabal os Saraj, Tagāb, Sidqābād.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NE of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	68.9651° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.4585° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NE of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-18 08:26:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-18 21:21:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	285	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	0.104	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 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	us70009k2j	Id of event.
Event Code	70009k2j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009k2j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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