A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Jarm in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/12/19 / 2019-12-22 14:58:39 / December 22, 2019 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 154.93 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.933 East, latitude 36.4603 North, depth = 154.93 km. Unique identifier: us70006puq. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006puq. The temblor was reported at 19:28:39 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km S of Jarm, Afghanistan.
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