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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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Earthquake location 36.7216S, 71.3072WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Thursday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:30:56 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 19:30:56 / March 20, 2025 @ 7:30 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000plec. Unique identifier: us7000plec. Exact location of event, longitude 71.3072 East, latitude 36.7216 North, depth = 188.832 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.832 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 20 km WNW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.832 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km WNW 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 2025-03-20 19:30:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 20:30:17 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 354 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000plec Id of event.
Event Code 7000plec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000plec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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