Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 41 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Id of earthquake: us6000a0uh. Event ids that are associated: us6000a0uh. Global time and date of event 28/05/20 / 2020-05-28 07:12:54 / May 28, 2020 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.7742 East, latitude 36.4923 North, depth = 137.47 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 137.47 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:12:54 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farkhār, Ishqoshim, Fayzabad.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 41 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.7742° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4923° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-28 07:12:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-03 12:49:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	284	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	2.074	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us6000a0uh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000a0uh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000a0uh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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