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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on December 25, 2015 2 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5148S, 71.1354WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. Unique identifier: us100049i1. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049i1. The epicenter was at a depth of 203.52 km (126 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 19:14:47 / December 25, 2015 @ 7:14 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:44:47 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.1354 East, latitude 36.5148 North, depth = 203.52 km.

Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop), 123 km (77 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). 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 Pārūn, Khandūd, Khorugh.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.1354° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km WSW 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 2015-12-25 19:14:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-25 19:37:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 108 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 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 654 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 0.757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100049i1 Id of event.
Event Code 100049i1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049i1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Aadi

    A part of it also felt in North India with a sound..

    December 25, 2015
    Reply

  2. Aamad

    It was too heavy in Lahore , Pakistan ..

    December 25, 2015
    Reply

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