Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag was detected near Jarm in Afghanistan

A earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, 70.4374° East, 36.5344° North, depth 210.22 km. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:09:52 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/19 / 2019-12-20 11:39:52 / December 20, 2019 @ 11:39 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006p18. Id of event: us70006p18. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 210.22 km (131 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Khanabad, Ishqoshim, Ārt Khwājah (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 119 km (74 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Ārt Khwājah (c. 18 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.4374° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	210.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km SW of Jarm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-20 11:39:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-20 11:58:22	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	3.725	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	572	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	1.394	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70006p18	Id of event.
Event Code	70006p18	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006p18,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.1 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

70.4374° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

36.5344° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

210.22 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

51km SW of Jarm, Afghanistan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-12-20 11:39:52

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-12-20 11:58:22

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

3.725

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

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

572

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.394

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70006p18

Id of event.

Event Code

70006p18

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70006p18,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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