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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.455S, 70.5005WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 70.5005° East, 36.455° North, depth 136.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 136.44 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:13:32 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009lsu. Id of event: us20009lsu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/06/17 / 2017-06-10 20:43:32 / June 10, 2017 @ 8:43 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Fayzabad, Farkhār (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 53 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.5005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-10 20:43:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-30 01:42:19 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us20009lsu Id of event.
Event Code 20009lsu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lsu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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