Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Farkhar in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 235.09 km (146 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:08:46 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000jdx7. Event ids that are associated: us2000jdx7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 22:38:46 / February 5, 2019 @ 10:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 70.3916 East, latitude 36.6154 North, depth = 235.09 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taloqan, Rustāq, Fayzabad. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop).

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

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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. 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	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.3916° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6154° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	235.09 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	2019-02-05 22:38:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-01 05:23:13	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	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	1.364	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us2000jdx7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jdx7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jdx7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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