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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Farkhar in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on March 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7563S, 70.1146WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Farkhar in Afghanistan on Monday. The temblor was detected at 11:40:25 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jhum. Id of event: us1000jhum. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/19 / 2019-03-18 07:10:25 / March 18, 2019 @ 7:10 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 283.98 km (176 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 70.1146° East, 36.7563° North, depth 283.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dasht-e Archī, Yangī Qal‘ah, Khanabad. Epicenter of the event was 89 km (56 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km NE of Farkhar, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1146° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 283.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NE 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 2019-03-18 07:10:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-18 11:50:35 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 298 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 1.456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us1000jhum Id of event.
Event Code 1000jhum An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jhum, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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