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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Farkhār in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on November 2, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5139S, 70.1807WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ny2m. Unique identifier: us6000ny2m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 13:21:19 / October 11, 2024 @ 1:21 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:21:19 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.1807 East, latitude 36.5139 North, depth = 222.155 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 222.155 km (138 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ārt Khwājah, Fayzabad, Rustāq (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 29 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1807° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 222.155 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km ESE of Farkhār, 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 13:21:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-02 11:26:02 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000ny2m Id of event.
Event Code 6000ny2m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ny2m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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