A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Qalāt in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 67.4509 East, latitude 32.4667 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000njbl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000njbl. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:22:36 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/24 / 2024-08-10 09:22:36 / August 10, 2024 @ 9:22 am.
Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Uruzgān (c. 13 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Qalāt (c. 12 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uruzgān, Qalāt (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km NE of Qalāt, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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