A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. The temblor was detected at 20:00:45 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10003rv8. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003rv8. The epicenter was at a depth of 216.44 km (134 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.2516 East, latitude 36.5262 North, depth = 216.44 km. Global time and date of event 27/10/15 / 2015-10-27 15:30:45 / October 27, 2015 @ 3:30 pm UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ārt Khwājah, Rustāq, Fayzabad. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 35 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan.
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