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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.3773S, 70.5858WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. The temblor was detected at 15:23:19 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 144.64 km (90 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 10:53:19 / August 16, 2015 @ 10:53 am. Exact location of event, longitude 70.5858 East, latitude 36.3773 North, depth = 144.64 km. Event id: us100032nv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032nv.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār. Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 42 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.5858° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-16 10:53:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-04 09:42:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us100032nv Id of event.
Event Code 100032nv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032nv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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