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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Jurm in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5029S, 70.8718WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Unique identifier: us6000nk6q. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nk6q. Exact location of event, depth 194.128 km, 70.8718° East, 36.5029° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 194.128 km (121 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:36:11 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 19:36:11 / August 14, 2024 @ 7:36 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim. Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 40 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.8718° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5029° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.128 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-14 19:36:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-14 20:01:25 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 122 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000nk6q Id of event.
Event Code 6000nk6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nk6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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