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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pārūn in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.0392S, 70.4663WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Pārūn in Afghanistan on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 01:05:59 / September 2, 2024 @ 1:05 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.75 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.4663 East, latitude 36.0392 North, depth = 132.75 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000np5y. Unique identifier: us6000np5y. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:05:59 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār, Pārūn (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km NNW of Pārūn, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.4663° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km NNW of Pārūn, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-02 01:05:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-02 02:37:16 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 312 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000np5y Id of event.
Event Code 6000np5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000np5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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