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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan

Posted by admin on July 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.152S, 70.6481WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan kilometers (0 miles) from Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:37:44 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 107.84 km, 70.6481° East, 36.152° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 107.84 km (67 miles). Global time and date of event 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 21:37:44 / July 31, 2018 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gikq. Id of event: us2000gikq.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pārūn, Farkhār, Jurm. Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6481° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.152° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-31 21:37:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-31 22:34:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 1.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us2000gikq Id of event.
Event Code 2000gikq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gikq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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