Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Jurm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Friday. Global time and date of event 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 00:39:13 / October 11, 2024 @ 12:39 am UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:39:13 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000nxzr. Event ids that are associated: us6000nxzr. The epicenter was at a depth of 189.043 km (117 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 70.9974° East, 36.7479° North, depth 189.043 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-four 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km SE of Jurm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.9974° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7479° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	189.043 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km SE 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	2024-10-11 00:39:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-11 01:25:41	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	259	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.982	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us6000nxzr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nxzr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nxzr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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