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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Farkhār in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.4641S, 70.4007WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, depth 208.81 km, 70.4007° East, 36.4641° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 12:32:46 / December 27, 2020 @ 12:32 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:32:46 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 208.81 km (130 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000d3fi. Event ids that are associated: us6000d3fi.

The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad.

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 208.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-27 12:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-27 12:50:40 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 2.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000d3fi Id of event.
Event Code 6000d3fi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d3fi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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