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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on October 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4952S, 71.1791WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c80k. Id of event: us7000c80k. The epicenter was at a depth of 201.83 km (125 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:51:36 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 71.1791° East, 36.4952° North, depth 201.83 km. Global time and date of event 30/10/20 / 2020-10-30 15:51:36 / October 30, 2020 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Close 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 Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 37 km WSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.1791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km WSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-30 15:51:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-30 18:23:02 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 326 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 2.615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us7000c80k Id of event.
Event Code 7000c80k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c80k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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