Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Pārūn in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Pārūn in Afghanistan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 70.5137 East, latitude 36.0469 North, depth = 100.412 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:02:12 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000nqd3. Event ids that are associated: us6000nqd3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.412 km (62 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 22:02:12 / September 7, 2024 @ 10:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār, Pārūn.

Every 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 seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 78 km NNW of Pārūn, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5137° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0469° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	100.412 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78 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	2024-09-07 22:02:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 22:22:05	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	298	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.9	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000nqd3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nqd3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nqd3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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