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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Taloqan in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Taloqan in Afghanistan. Id of earthquake: us7000ca31. Event ids that are associated: us7000ca31. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.5837 East, latitude 36.5715 North, depth = 168.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 168.5 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/20 / 2020-11-04 02:39:46 / November 4, 2020 @ 2:39 am. The temblor was reported at 02:39:46 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Panj, Dasht-e Archī (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km SSE of Taloqan, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.5837° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5715° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	168.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km SSE of Taloqan, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-04 02:39:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-04 02:59:47	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	259	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	2.073	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us7000ca31	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ca31	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ca31,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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