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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 33 km SW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.4387S, 71.3184WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.3184 East, latitude 36.4387 North, depth = 97.42 km. The temblor was detected at 03:59:00 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000n8kh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8kh. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/24 / 2024-06-19 03:59:00 / June 19, 2024 @ 3:59 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 97.42 km (61 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby 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 Jurm, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km SW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3184° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SW 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 2024-06-19 03:59:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-05 00:07:03 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.877 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us6000n8kh Id of event.
Event Code 6000n8kh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n8kh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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