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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.718S, 71.4514WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:46:21 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 151.78 km (94 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/24 / 2024-07-05 13:46:21 / July 5, 2024 @ 1:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mx8t. Unique identifier: us7000mx8t. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.4514 East, latitude 36.718 North, depth = 151.78 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Khorugh, Khandūd. Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km WNW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.4514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 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 2024-07-05 13:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-16 08:20:33 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 284 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.74 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000mx8t Id of event.
Event Code 7000mx8t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mx8t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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