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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. The temblor was detected at 10:49:00 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 215.713 km (134 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 10:49:00 / November 28, 2024 @ 10:49 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.1984 East, latitude 36.6657 North, depth = 215.713 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nupk. Event ids that are associated: us7000nupk.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 105 km (65 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 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days ninety-nine 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km W of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.1984° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	215.713 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 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	2024-11-28 10:49:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-28 11:08:16	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	400	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.151	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	77	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	us7000nupk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nupk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nupk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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