A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 06:12:49 / September 2, 2016 @ 6:12 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:42:49 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.3916 East, latitude 36.0464 North, depth = 104.27 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 104.27 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jk7. Id of event: us10006jk7.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Farkhār.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, 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 has occurred nearby. 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: 34 km W of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.
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