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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 172.29 km (107 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ddis. Id of event: us7000ddis. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:36:39 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 172.29 km, 71.5883° East, 36.6016° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/21 / 2021-02-25 08:36:39 / February 25, 2021 @ 8:36 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Jurm, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 10 km SSE of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.5883° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	172.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SSE 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	2021-02-25 08:36:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-25 09:19:26	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	271	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	2.921	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	202	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	us7000ddis	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ddis	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ddis,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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