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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5646S, 70.3463WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Friday. The temblor was reported at 04:23:56 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 205.55 km (128 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/15 / 2015-11-12 23:53:56 / November 12, 2015 @ 11:53 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.3463 East, latitude 36.5646 North, depth = 205.55 km. Id of earthquake: us10003xym. Event ids that are associated: us10003xym. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 43 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3463° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 205.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km E 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 2015-11-12 23:53:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-04 00:07:15 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 259 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 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10003xym Id of event.
Event Code 10003xym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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