Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. Event id: us7000ns7q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ns7q. Exact location, longitude 71.1264° East, latitude 36.5965° North, depth = 195.327 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 23:13:16 / November 16, 2024 @ 11:13 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:13:16 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 195.327 km (121 miles).

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Jurm. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km WSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.1264° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5965° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	195.327 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km WSW 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	2024-11-16 23:13:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-16 23:37:12	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	284	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.163	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us7000ns7q	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ns7q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ns7q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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