Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Jurm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, longitude 71.0153 East, latitude 36.3771 North, depth = 142.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:56:49 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 142.83 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000bfjf. Event ids that are associated: us7000bfjf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/09/20 / 2020-09-01 02:56:49 / September 1, 2020 @ 2:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

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 seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.0153° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3771° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	142.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km SSE 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	2020-09-01 02:56:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-02 04:30:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	312	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	2.438	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us7000bfjf	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bfjf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bfjf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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