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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Nahrīn in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on September 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0154S, 69.708WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Nahrīn in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 04:04:46 / September 26, 2020 @ 4:04 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 108.52 km, 69.708° East, 36.0154° North. The temblor was picked up at 04:04:46 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 108.52 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000c1hq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c1hq.

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Baghlān (c. 108 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bāzārak (c. 65 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pul-e Khumrī (c. 56 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khanabad, Baghlān, Pul-e Khumrī (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 52 km E of Nahrīn, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km E of Nahrīn, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-26 04:04:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-26 04:19:51 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 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 1.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000c1hq Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1hq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c1hq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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