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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jurm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 23:49:30 / November 16, 2024 @ 11:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000ns7u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ns7u. Exact location of event, longitude 71.2831 East, latitude 37.0869 North, depth = 97.735 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:30 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 97.735 km (61 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Fayzabad, Khorugh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km ENE of Jurm, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2831° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0869° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	97.735 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km ENE 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	2024-11-16 23:49:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-17 00:06:45	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.921	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us7000ns7u	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ns7u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ns7u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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