A 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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