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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Jurm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on December 10, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7497S, 70.9161WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.9161 East, latitude 36.7497 North, depth = 87.851 km. The temblor was detected at 10:03:03 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.851 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 10:03:03 / December 10, 2024 @ 10:03 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxk3. Id of event: us7000nxk3.

Event epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Farkhār, Ishqoshim (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 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.9161° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7497° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.851 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SSE 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 2024-12-10 10:03:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-10 10:30:03 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 340 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.36 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us7000nxk3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxk3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxk3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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