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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Pakistan region

Posted by admin on July 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7373S, 71.2923WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Pakistan region kilometers (0 miles) from Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Pakistan region on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 15:27:29 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 15:27:29 / July 6, 2020 @ 3:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000alfh. Unique identifier: us7000alfh. Exact location, longitude 71.2923° East, latitude 36.7373° North, depth = 219.73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 219.73 km (137 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Pakistan region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2923° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 219.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Pakistan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-06 15:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-15 20:11:19 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 298 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 0.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000alfh Id of event.
Event Code 7000alfh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000alfh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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