A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 08:30:47 / March 4, 2025 @ 8:30 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:30:47 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwru. Unique identifier: us6000pwru. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6015 East, latitude 36.4435 North, depth = 137.108 km. 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 137.108 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).
Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km SSW of Jurm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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