A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 21:35:55 / July 15, 2015 @ 9:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 203.77 km (127 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20002xsi. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002xsi. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:05:55 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 203.77 km, 70.3008° East, 36.5603° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 39 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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