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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ashkasham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.3245S, 71.3863WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Ashkasham in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 00:20:21 / May 16, 2020 @ 12:20 am. Exact location, longitude 71.3863° East, latitude 36.3245° North, depth = 92.15 km. The temblor was reported at 04:50:21 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70009hi8. Event ids that are associated: us70009hi8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.15 km (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jurm, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 41 km SSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.3863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-16 00:20:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 00:41:28 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 2.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us70009hi8 Id of event.
Event Code 70009hi8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009hi8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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