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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1267S, 69.9811WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 69.9811 East, latitude 36.1267 North, depth = 111.74 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.74 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:12:02 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 09:42:02 / November 13, 2017 @ 9:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bmjj. Unique identifier: us2000bmjj.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taloqan, Nahrīn, Farkhār. The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km SSE of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.9811° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1267° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SSE 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 2017-11-13 09:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-13 14:16:00 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 326 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 1.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us2000bmjj Id of event.
Event Code 2000bmjj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bmjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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