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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Jarm in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.4898S, 70.7448WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.7448 East, latitude 36.4898 North, depth = 204.16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjg0. Id of event: us2000cjg0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 204.16 km (127 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 09:19:30 / January 14, 2018 @ 9:19 am. The temblor was detected at 13:49:30 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Ishqoshim, Farkhār. Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 42 km S of Jarm, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.7448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 204.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km S of Jarm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-14 09:19:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 09:37:09 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 432 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 0.648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cjg0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjg0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjg0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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