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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Friday. Global time and date of event 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 16:07:25 / October 11, 2024 @ 4:07 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ny4m. Id of event: us6000ny4m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 176.587 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 71.3818° East, 36.7657° North, depth 176.587 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:07:25 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 16 km NW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.3818° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	176.587 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NW of Ashkāsham, 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 16:07:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-11 19:37:42	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.186	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000ny4m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ny4m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ny4m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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