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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on November 22, 2015 7 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4848S, 71.4613WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 71.4613 East, latitude 36.4848 North, depth = 92.41 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100040ct. Unique identifier: us100040ct. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 18:16:04 / November 22, 2015 @ 6:16 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:46:04 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.41 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khorugh, Fayzabad, Khandūd.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 22 km SSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.4613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-22 18:16:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 18:34:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 36 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.95 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 550 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us100040ct Id of event.
Event Code 100040ct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040ct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Soujit

    Felt tremors in Roorkee, uttarakhand, India

    November 22, 2015
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  2. Daks

    Yep felt little shake for few seconds, haryana state India

    November 22, 2015
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  3. Reza

    We felt in KABUL, Afghanistan.

    November 22, 2015
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  4. Khurram

    Felt in Lahore, but seems everything is fine yet

    November 22, 2015
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  5. Aftab

    Also in pakistan

    November 22, 2015
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  6. Hamza

    Yep it felt in lahore!

    November 22, 2015
    Reply

  7. Piotr

    Slight tremors in Islamabad

    November 22, 2015
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