A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 70.4743 East, latitude 36.0887 North, depth = 106.04 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100030cd. Unique identifier: us100030cd. Global time and date of event 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 22:00:17 / August 7, 2015 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.04 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:30:17 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jurm, Pārūn, Farkhār. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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