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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jarm in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.7145S, 70.9638WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 228.41 km (142 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 02:09:22 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 70.9638° East, 36.7145° North, depth 228.41 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/15 / 2015-10-04 21:39:22 / October 4, 2015 @ 9:39 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10003k9p. Event ids that are associated: us10003k9p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishqoshim, Fayzabad, Ashkāsham.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SE of Jarm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.9638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 228.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SE of Jarm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-04 21:39:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-04 21:56:23 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 298 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 0.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us10003k9p Id of event.
Event Code 10003k9p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003k9p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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