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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Pārūn in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 35.3685S, 70.8649WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pārūn in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/20 / 2020-11-12 02:06:11 / November 12, 2020 @ 2:06 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.78 km (87 miles). Exact location, longitude 70.8649° East, latitude 35.3685° North, depth = 140.78 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:06:11 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000cdlw. Event ids that are associated: us7000cdlw.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asadābād, Āsmār, Pārūn (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop).

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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 7 km SW of Pārūn, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.8649° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 140.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SW of Pārūn, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-12 02:06:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-13 01:35:36 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 246 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 1.709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us7000cdlw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cdlw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdlw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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