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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Khulm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on November 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.46S, 67.4497WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Khulm in Afghanistan on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hsj6. Id of event: us1000hsj6. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:51 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.61 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 67.4497° East, 36.46° North, depth 13.61 km. Global time and date of event 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 04:48:51 / November 16, 2018 @ 4:48 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Mazār-e Sharīf (c. 303 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tirmiz (c. 140 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Balkh (c. 114 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Khulm (c. 64 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Aībak (c. 47 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Qarchī Gak (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Qarchī Gak, Tirmiz, Balkh. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 34 km SW of Khulm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 67.4497° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.46° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SW of Khulm, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-16 04:48:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-16 05:14:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 385 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 1.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us1000hsj6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hsj6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hsj6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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