Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Shibirghān in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Shibirghān in Afghanistan on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:56:38 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/20 / 2020-12-18 02:56:38 / December 18, 2020 @ 2:56 am. Id of earthquake: us6000d1wm. Event ids that are associated: us6000d1wm. Exact location, longitude 66.1078° East, latitude 36.8611° North, depth = 18.32 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.32 km (11 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Mazār-e Sharīf (c. 303 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Balkh (c. 114 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Shibirghān (c. 55 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Sar-e Pul (c. 52 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Andkhōy (c. 29 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Qarqīn (c. 15 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazār-e Sharīf, Andkhōy, Sar-e Pul (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 38 km NE of Shibirghān, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	66.1078° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8611° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km NE of Shibirghān, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-18 02:56:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-22 22:27:21	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	284	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	3.326	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us6000d1wm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d1wm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d1wm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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