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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Jurm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on July 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6693S, 70.6566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Saturday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:20:06 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000alsu. Id of event: us7000alsu. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6566 East, latitude 36.6693 North, depth = 268.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/20 / 2020-07-11 04:20:06 / July 11, 2020 @ 4:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 268.41 km (167 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 26 km SW of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 268.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SW of Jurm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-11 04:20:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-11 04:37:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000alsu Id of event.
Event Code 7000alsu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000alsu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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