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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ashkasham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 15:41:49 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008uk4. Event ids that are associated: us20008uk4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 189.53 km (118 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/17 / 2017-03-25 11:11:49 / March 25, 2017 @ 11:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.2928 East, latitude 36.7696 North, depth = 189.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 23 km WNW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2928° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7696° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	189.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km WNW 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	2017-03-25 11:11:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-25 11:26:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	284	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	0.675	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us20008uk4	Id of event.
Event Code	20008uk4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008uk4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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