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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5163S, 70.3233WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 18:43:47 / February 20, 2016 @ 6:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004rf1. Id of event: us10004rf1. The temblor was picked up at 23:13:47 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.3233 East, latitude 36.5163 North, depth = 195.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 195.89 km (122 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 195.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2016-02-20 18:43:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 22:15:33 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 298 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 0.641 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10004rf1 Id of event.
Event Code 10004rf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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