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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ashkasham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.6959S, 71.3903WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 10:20:34 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 177.62 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10004d40. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004d40. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/16 / 2016-01-09 05:50:34 / January 9, 2016 @ 5:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, 71.3903° East, 36.6959° North, depth 177.62 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Khandūd, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 twelve, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km W of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3903° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 177.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W 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 2016-01-09 05:50:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-29 06:51:48 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 271 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 0.78 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 82 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 us10004d40 Id of event.
Event Code 10004d40 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004d40, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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