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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Farkhār in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 20:58:48 / June 26, 2024 @ 8:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 69.7632° East, latitude 36.4295° North, depth = 159.806 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 159.806 km (99 miles). Event id: us6000n8i5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8i5. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:58:48 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kunduz, Rustāq, Ārt Khwājah (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 18 km SSW of Farkhār, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.7632° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4295° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	159.806 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km SSW 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	2024-06-26 20:58:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-26 21:17:33	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.978	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000n8i5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n8i5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n8i5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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