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Light earthquake 4 mag, 45 km S of Farkhar, Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1657S, 69.8792WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 115.08 km (72 miles). Unique identifier: us10008fna. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008fna. The temblor was detected at 22:36:10 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 18:06:10 / April 7, 2017 @ 6:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.8792 East, latitude 36.1657 North, depth = 115.08 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khanabad, Taloqan, Nahrīn (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 45 km S of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.8792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km S 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 2017-04-07 18:06:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-07 19:31:54 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 246 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 1.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us10008fna Id of event.
Event Code 10008fna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008fna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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