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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Jurm in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5951S, 70.9649WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us6000mtqc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtqc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:14:05 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 08:14:05 / April 17, 2024 @ 8:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.9649 East, latitude 36.5951 North, depth = 211.732 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 211.732 km (132 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eleven 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 32 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.9649° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 211.732 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-17 08:14:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-13 10:58:30 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 259 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.556 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us6000mtqc Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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