Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:53:29 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/06/24 / 2024-06-05 18:53:29 / June 5, 2024 @ 6:53 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000mqjz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mqjz. Exact location, longitude 71.3101° East, latitude 36.7503° North, depth = 223.77 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 223.77 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Fayzabad, Jurm. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 21 km WNW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.3101° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7503° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	223.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km WNW 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	2024-06-05 18:53:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-13 15:13:36	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	246	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.638	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us7000mqjz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mqjz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mqjz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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