Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Khōst in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Khōst in Afghanistan on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:44:02 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.8609 East, latitude 33.5075 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/11/24 / 2024-11-10 07:44:02 / November 10, 2024 @ 7:44 am. Unique identifier: us7000nqyl. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nqyl.

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bannu, Doāba, . Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Gardēz (c. 103 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Khōst (c. 96 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bannu (c. 49 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Doāba (c. 8 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 19 km NNW of Khōst, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.8609° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.5075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km NNW of Khōst, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-10 07:44:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 08:06:03	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.722	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	267	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	us7000nqyl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqyl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqyl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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