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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.2339S, 71.4759WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.081 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 71.4759° East, 36.2339° North, depth 102.081 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:17:07 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 21:17:07 / July 6, 2024 @ 9:17 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mxh7. Id of event: us7000mxh7.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jurm, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 50 km S of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.4759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.081 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km S 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 2024-07-06 21:17:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-06 21:37:54 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 340 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 98 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us7000mxh7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mxh7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mxh7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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