Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 50 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. The epicenter was at a depth of 210.582 km (131 miles). Global time and date of event 25/12/24 / 2024-12-25 07:57:43 / December 25, 2024 @ 7:57 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000pfjz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfjz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:57:43 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.4016 East, latitude 36.4578 North, depth = 210.582 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.4016° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4578° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	210.582 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-25 07:57:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-25 09:10:58	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us6000pfjz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pfjz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pfjz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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