Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 18:30:46 / October 16, 2024 @ 6:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 215.859 km, 71.2591° East, 36.6824° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 215.859 km (134 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:30:46 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nz5g. Id of event: us6000nz5g.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim. Nearby 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km W of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2591° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6824° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	215.859 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km W 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	2024-10-16 18:30:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-16 20:13:35	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	271	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us6000nz5g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nz5g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nz5g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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