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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.4972S, 70.3244WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. The temblor was reported at 20:17:50 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003yi6. Event ids that are associated: us10003yi6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 208.63 km (130 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 15:47:50 / November 15, 2015 @ 3:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 70.3244 East, latitude 36.4972 North, depth = 208.63 km.

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad.

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3244° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 208.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ESE of Farkhar, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-15 15:47:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-15 17:19:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 326 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 0.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10003yi6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003yi6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yi6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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