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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5402S, 70.0843WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:44:06 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 215.06 km (134 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200066wz. Id of event: us200066wz. Exact location of event, longitude 70.0843 East, latitude 36.5402 North, depth = 215.06 km. Global time and date of event 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 09:14:06 / June 26, 2016 @ 9:14 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nahrīn, Khanabad, Ārt Khwājah (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.0843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 215.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2016-06-26 09:14:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 09:32:00 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 385 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 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us200066wz Id of event.
Event Code 200066wz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066wz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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