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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on March 13, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.433S, 69.6021WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/21 / 2021-03-13 12:30:24 / March 13, 2021 @ 12:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:30:24 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000dj2t. Unique identifier: us7000dj2t. Exact location of earthquake, 69.6021° East, 37.433° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jilikŭl, Khanabad, Fayzabad. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km SSW of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.6021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km SSW of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-13 12:30:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-13 13:18:58 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 298 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 2.679 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000dj2t Id of event.
Event Code 7000dj2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dj2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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