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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Ashkasham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.6038S, 71.2969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:43:41 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100085vx. Event ids that are associated: us100085vx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 03:13:41 / March 1, 2017 @ 3:13 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 233.11 km (145 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.2969 East, latitude 36.6038 North, depth = 233.11 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim. Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop).

Each 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 thirteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km WSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 233.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WSW 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 2017-03-01 03:13:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-30 02:52:55 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 259 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 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us100085vx Id of event.
Event Code 100085vx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100085vx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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