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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5162S, 70.3871WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000je81. Unique identifier: us2000je81. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 215.57 km (134 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.3871 East, latitude 36.5162 North, depth = 215.57 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:12:55 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 16:42:55 / February 6, 2019 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Taloqan, Fayzabad.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 47 km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.3871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 215.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km E 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 2019-02-06 16:42:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 23:43:41 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 1.435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us2000je81 Id of event.
Event Code 2000je81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000je81, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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